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Leroy Scott (July 21, 1875 – May 11, 1929) was an American writer of novels and screenplays.

Leroy Scott
Scott in a 1919 ad
Born	(1875-05-11)May 11, 1875 Fairmont, Indiana
Died	July 21, 1929(1929-07-21) (aged 54) Merrill, New York
Nationality	American
Occupation	Writer
Known for	Novels, Screenplays
Spouse(s)	Miriam Finn

Biography

Scott was born in Fairmount, Indiana 11 May 1875. His father was a minister with the Religious Society of Friends. He graduated from Indiana University in 1897. His writing career began with three years experience as a reporter; he worked at a Louisiana newspaper owned by his brother.[1] Later (1900–01) he became assistant editor of the Woman’s Home Companion.

Scott was a social activist. In 1902–3 he was assistant headworker at the University Settlement House. It is there that he met and later married on 27 Jun 1904 Miriam Finn,[2] a Russian Jewish writer,[3] with whom he had a daughter. Around this time Scott was an officer of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, of which he was a founder.[1] Scott had come to University Settlement after Hull House experience. After his settlement experience, Scott and his wife came to live at the "A-Club", a cooperative, and a "radical center."[4]

In 1906, Scott helped arrange accommodations for Maxim Gorky during his visit to the United States.[5] In 1907 Scott and his wife visited Russia.[6]

To research his book about labor relations, The Walking Delegate (1905), Scott Joined the Structural Iron Workers Union.[7]

In addition to novels, Scott became involved in the movie industry, where he accumulated numerous writing credits, as well as an acting credit in one film. When Goldwyn Pictures determined a need to produce movies in New York as well as on the west coast, Scott's Partners of the Night was chosen as the first work.[8]

Scott drowned in Lake Chateaugay, near Plattsburgh, New York on 21 July 1929.[9]

Works

• Children of the Whirlwind
• The Walking Delegate (1905)
• To Him that Hath (1907)
• The Shears of Destiny (1910)
• Vocations, ed. William DeWitt Hyde. Hall and Locke Company. Boston. Vol. 1. The Mechanic Arts. Richard C. Maclauren ed. (1911). “Selden’s Explosion Buggy”. p. 343
• Counsel for the Defense (1912)
• No. 13 Washington Square (1914)
• Graft (1915)
• Partners of the Night (1916)
• The Sturdy Oak; a composite novel of American politics by fourteen American authors (ch xiv) (1917)
• Mary Regan (1918)
• A Daughter of Two Worlds: A Novel of New York Life (1919)
• Cordelia the Magnificent (1923)
• The Heart of Katie O”Doone (1925)
• Folly’s Gold (1926)
• The Trail of Glory (1926)
• The Living Dead Man (1929)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leroy Scott.

• Works by Leroy Scott at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Leroy Scott at Internet Archive
• Schmidt, Barbara. "Mark Twain on czars, Siberia, and the Russian Revolution". Retrieved 16 Jan 2011.
• Leroy Scott at IMDb
• LeRoy Scott Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

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