Nell Martin(1887-1961)
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Born in Illinois, and working as a strawberry picker in Missouri by the
age of ten. Called herself a "Jill-of-all-trades," as she worked as a
newspaper reporter, taxi-cab driver, lawyer's assistant, laundry
worker, and press agent before she became a writer. Author of over 200
short stories and eight novels. Originator of the Maisie stories which
later starred Ann Sothern. One time lover of Dashiell Hammett: he
dedicated The Glass Key (1930) to her. Friend of Earl Stanley Gardner,
Don Blanding and Lon Chaney, Sr.
