AKA Martin Archer Flavin

Born: 2-Nov-1883
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Died: 27-Dec-1967
Location of death: Carmel, CA
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Novelist, Playwright

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Journey in the Dark

Father: Martin Flavin, Sr.
Mother: Louise Archer (d. 1893)
Father: Frank James Kelley (stepfather after 1894)
Brother: Frank J. Kelley, Jr. (half brother, b. 1894, d. 1965)
Brother: Lawrence Archer Kelley (half brother, b. 1897, d. 1955)

    Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1944 for Journey in the Dark
    Dutch Treat Club (1947-67)

Author of books:
Spindrift (1930, novel)
Sunday (1933, novel)
Blue Jeans (1937, novel)
Mr. Littlejohn (1940, novel)
Journey in the Dark (1944, novel)
Red Poppies and White Marble (1962)

Wrote plays:
Children of the Moon (1923)
Emergency Case (1923)
Caleb Stone's Death Watch (1923)
Achilles Had a Heel (1924)
Lady of the Rose (1925)
Service for Two (1926)
The Criminal Code (1929)
Broken Dishes (1929)
Crossroads (1929)
Tapestry in Gray (1935)
Around the Corner (1936)

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