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Burke Jenkins
A prolific early 20th-century writer, he is remembered today for pulp fiction and silent-film screenwriting. His surviving credits point to a career that moved between popular magazine storytelling and Hollywood in the 1920s.
4 Audiobooks
Nick Carter Stories No. 124, January 23, 1915: The girl kidnaper; or, Nick Carter's up-to-date clew.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Burke Jenkins
Nick Carter Stories No. 123, January 16, 1915: Half a million ransom; or, Nick Carter and the needy nine.
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Burke Jenkins, A. L. Small
Nick Carter Stories No. 122, January 9, 1915: The suicide; or, Nick Carter and the lost head
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Burke Jenkins, E. K. Nostwell
Nick Carter Stories No. 121, January 2, 1915: The call of death; or, Nick Carter's clever assistant
by Nicholas (House name) Carter, Burke Jenkins
About the author
Born on July 21, 1879, in North Carolina, Burke Jenkins was an American writer whose work appears in both pulp-era fiction and silent cinema. Available reference listings identify him as an author and screenwriter, and film databases credit him on movies including The Drug Store Cowboy (1925), Flame of the Argentine (1926), and Lure of the Night Club (1927).
Book and library records also connect him with Nick Carter Stories, the long-running detective pulp series. Project Gutenberg and The Online Books Page list multiple titles carrying his name, which suggests he was an active contributor to fast-paced popular fiction of the 1910s.
Jenkins died on October 19, 1948, in Ventura, California. I couldn’t confirm many personal details beyond the basic biographical record, but the sources that are available show a writer whose career touched two major forms of mass entertainment of his time: dime-novel-style fiction and silent film.