John Phillips Marquand

John P. Marquand (1893-1960) contributed short fiction to The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Collier's, Good Housekeeping, and other leading magazines. He wrote several widely admired and bestselling novels, among them the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Late George Apley (1937), Wickford Point (1939), and H. M. Pullham, Esquire (1941). He was the author also of the highly successful series of Mr. Moto detective novels.

John P. Marquand (1893-1960) contributed short fiction to The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Collier's, Good Housekeeping, and other leading magazines. He wrote several widely admired and bestselling novels, among them the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Late George Apley (1937), Wickford Point (1939), and H. M. Pullham, Esquire (1941). He was the author also of the highly successful series of Mr. Moto detective novels. See less