author
Clarence Louis Cullen
d. 1922
A turn-of-the-century American storyteller, remembered for lively tales about gamblers, hard-luck characters, and the rough edges of city life. His fiction has an easy, conversational energy that still feels surprisingly vivid.
2 Audiobooks
Taking Chances
by Clarence Louis Cullen
The Eddy: A Novel of To-day
by Clarence Louis Cullen
About the author
Clarence Louis Cullen was an American writer active around the turn of the 20th century. Surviving records linked to his books show that he wrote Taking Chances (1900), Tales of the Ex-Tanks: A Book of Hard-Luck Stories, and later The Eddy: A Novel of To-day (1910). His work often circles around risk, vice, social pressure, and the small dramas of everyday people.
A contemporary description of Tales of the Ex-Tanks says the stories first appeared in the New York Sun and other newspapers, which fits the brisk, anecdotal style readers still notice in his fiction. Taking Chances is especially tied to horse racing and gambling, while The Eddy shifts toward urban and domestic life.
Some library-style sources list him as having died in 1922, while IMDb gives a specific death date of June 29, 1921, in Deal Beach, New Jersey. Because the record is not fully consistent, it is safest to say that he died in the early 1920s. No suitable verified portrait image was found from the sources checked.