Coxe, George Harmon

The American crime writer George Harmon Coxe was born in Olean, New York, and attended Elmira Free Academy in the city before starting at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he studied to become an engineer 1919-20. He tired of the subject, dropped out of the course and instead studied Liberal Arts at Cornell University, Ithaca i Indiana 1920–21. He tired of that too, dropped out and had temporary jobs as, for example, a lumberjack and in a car factory, before putting his efforts into writing. In 1922 he got a job at the newspaper Outlook in Santa Monica in California, and in that same year for the first time some of his short stories were published in a pulp magazine in the crime-fiction genre.