Nina Wilcox Putnam

Nina Wilcox Putnam was an American novelist, screenwriter and playwright. She wrote more than 500 short stories, around 1000 magazine articles, and several books in addition to regular newspaper columns, serials, comic books and childrens literature. Many of her stories were made into films, including a story that was the basis for the 1932 film The Mummy starring Boris Karloff. She married four times, was estimated to have earned one million dollars from her writing, and drafted the first 1040 income tax form for the IRS.

Inez Coralie Wilcox was born in New Haven, Connecticut on November 28, 1888 to Eleanor Sanchez Wilcox and Marrion Wilcox. She was homeschooled by her father, who taught English at Yale and was an editor of Harpers Weekly and the Encyclopedia Americana. She had a sister, Lenor, who was five years younger than she. When Inez wasyears old, the New York Sunday Herald bought a short story of hers for 5.

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