Marion Polk Angellotti
Marion Polk Angellotti (12 November 1887 - April 1975)[1] was an American author. She wrote short stories for pulp magazines such as Adventure,[2] including several based on 14th-century condottiere John Hawkwood. Her novel The Firefly of France, bas
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Marion Polk Angellotti (12 November 1887 - April 1975)[1] was an American author. She wrote short stories for pulp magazines such as Adventure,[2] including several based on 14th-century condottiere John Hawkwood. Her novel The Firefly of France, based on the life of Georges Guynemer, was adapted to a film. [3]
Her other novels are Sir John Hawkwood: A Tale of the White Company in Italy, The Three Bags, The Burgundian: A Tale of Old France, and Harlette (which is a retelling of her short story "When the Devil Ruled", which had been published in the April 1913 edition of The Smart Set magazine).
Her father was judge Frank M. Angellotti. Angellotti served as a volunteer with the American Red Cross in France during the First World War.[3]
She died in 1975, and was buried in Bellevue Memorial Park, Ontario, California
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