Delos W. Lovelace

{{more citations needed|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Delos Wheeler Lovelace | image = Delos W. Lovelace - DPLA - aefdc24eab847e21e232c043301bdc4f.jpg | alt = | caption = | image_size = 170px | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1894|12|02}} | birth_place = Brainerd, Minnesota, United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1967|01|17|1894|12|02}} | death_place = | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Novelist | parents = | spouse = Maud Hart Lovelace | children = Merian Lovelace | relatives = | website = }} thumb|Lovelace in 1917 '''Delos Wheeler Lovelace''' (December 2, 1894 – January 17, 1967)<ref>''California, Death Index, 1940-1997''. State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.</ref> was an American novelist who authored the original novelization of the film ''King Kong'' (1933) published in 1932 by Grosset & Dunlap, slightly before the film was released. The story was also serialized in 2 parts in February and March 1933 by Walter Ripperger (credited to Edgar Wallace) for ''Mystery'' magazine.<ref>Cynthia Marie Erb, ''Tracking King Kong: A Hollywood Icon in World Culture'', page 39 (2nd edition, Wayne State University Press, 2009). {{ISBN|978-0-8143-3430-0}}</ref> Lovelace was a reporter for the ''New York Daily News'' and ''New York Sun'' in the 1920s.

He authored some two dozen books, including a biography of football coach Knute Rockne and one of Dwight D. Eisenhower. He co-authored three books with his wife.

==Personal life== He was the husband of Maud Hart Lovelace, author of the Betsy-Tacy books for young readers; they had one daughter, Merian (January 18, 1931 — September 25, 1997).

==Bibliography== {{Incomplete list|date=September 2008}} *''Rear Admiral Byrd and the Polar Expedition'' (1930; published under the pen-name Coram Foster) *''Rockne of Notre Dame'' (1931; biography of Knute Rockne) *''King Kong'' (1933; novelization of the 1933 film ''King Kong'') *''One Stayed at Welcome'' (1934; co-authored with wife Maud Hart Lovelace) *''Gentlemen from England'' (1937; co-authored with wife Maud Hart Lovelace) *''The golden wedge: Indian legends of South America'' (1942; co-authored with wife Maud Hart Lovelace) *''General "Ike" Eisenhower'' (1944; biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower) *''Journey to Bethlehem '' (1953) *''That Dodger Horse'' (1956; sometimes "The Dodger Horse")

Short stories:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/s/s4165.htm#A107823 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-03-02 |archive-date=2019-03-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331090843/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/s/s4165.htm#A107823 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/Hannigan/s172.htm#A5845 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-03-02 |archive-date=2017-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419112857/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/Hannigan/s172.htm#A5845 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *"Auction" (with Maud Hart Lovelace), (ss) ''The Country Gentleman'' Aug 2 1924 *"Barley Straw", ''The Country Gentleman'' Aug 23 1924 *"Big Bite", ''The Country Gentleman'' Feb 1926 *"Bonanza", ''The Country Gentleman'' Jul 1926 *"Boot", ''The Country Gentleman'' May 2, 1925 *"Borghild’s Clothes" (with Maud Hart Lovelace), ''The Modern Priscilla'' Apr 1922 *"Carmelita, Widow" (with Maud Hart Lovelace), ''Catholic World'' Oct 1924 *"Country Fair", ''The Country Gentleman'' May 1926 *"Country Queer", ''The Country Gentleman'' May 2, 1925 *"Cutting Edge", ''The Country Gentleman'' Apr 11 1925 *"Danny", ''The Country Gentleman'' Jul 11 1925 *"Detour No. 1", ''The Country Gentleman'' Mar 1928 *"Dishpan", ''The Country Gentleman'' Sep 1927 *"East Wind" (with Maud Hart Lovelace), ''The Country Gentleman'' Apr 26 1924 *"Fiddlefoot", ''The Saturday Evening Post'' Jul 18 1925 *"Fussbudget", ''The American Magazine'' Feb 1928 *"Gimme Gal", ''Success'' Jul 1927 *"Good Ideal", ''The Country Gentleman'' Aug 22 1925 *"Good Provider", ''The Country Gentleman'' May 1929 *"Inheritance", ''The Country Gentleman'' Dec 20 1924 *"Kitchen View", ''The Country Gentleman'' May 1927 *"Land" (with Maud Hart Lovelace), ''Liberty'' Aug 9 1924 *"Laughing Tyrant" (with Maud Hart Lovelace), ''The Country Gentleman'' Mar 29 1924 *"Little of Both, A", ''The Popular Magazine'' Sep 20 1925 *"Lucky Year", ''The Country Gentleman'' Feb 7 1925 *"Maid and the Hope Chest, The" (with Maud Hart Lovelace), ''Metropolitan Magazine'' May 1924 *"Neighbors" (with Maud Hart Lovelace), ''The Country Gentleman'' Sep 27 1924 *"Old Chris Pedersen", ''The Country Gentleman'' Dec 1925 *"One Day to Live" (with Maud Hart Lovelace), ''The Delineator'' Oct 1925 *"Proud Old Rooster", ''The American Magazine'' Mar 1928 *"Pull-Away", ''The Country Gentleman'' Mar 28 1925 *"Sleeping Cold", ''The Saturday Evening Post'' Feb 25 1928 *"Sold", ''The Country Gentleman'' Aug 1 1925 *"Stubborn Stebbins", ''The Country Gentleman'' Nov 1928 *"Swap", ''The Country Gentleman'' May 23, 1925 *"Toe of the Stocking", ''The Country Gentleman'' Dec 1926 *"Venture", ''Liberty'' May 1, 1926 *"Wheat", ''Ladies Home Journal'' Jul 1924 *"Whip Hand", ''The Country Gentleman'' Jun 13 1925 *"Yes, Ma’am!", ''The Country Gentleman'' May 1928

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[http://eisenhower.archives.gov/Research/Finding_Aids/L.html Papers of Delos W. Lovelace regarding ''General "Ike" Eisenhower'', 1944, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library]

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