Worked sporadically as a pulp fiction writer. He had 6 crime stories
appear in Black Mask from 1933-1936. A story of his was part of a Black
Mask anthology published in 1946 as 'The Hard Boiled Omnibus.'
One good thing is that you can work wherever you hang your hat, but writing is a frightening business, you sit down there with a blank piece of paper and you have to fill it. A doctor or lawyer or insurance man gets out and talks to people, but a writer just sits by himself and writes.