author
F. Lonergan
A prolific early screenwriter from the silent-film era, this author helped shape one of the period’s best-known movie tie-in mysteries. His work connects popular fiction with the fast-growing world of early cinema.
1 Audiobook
The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan
by Harold MacGrath, F. Lonergan
About the author
Born in Chicago on March 3, 1870, and later dying in New York City on April 6, 1937, F. Lonergan is best identified in reliable sources as Lloyd Lonergan, a hugely productive American scenario and screenwriter from the silent-film period.
He worked closely with the Thanhouser Company in New Rochelle, New York, and is credited with writing screenplays for more than 100 films. His busiest and most influential period came in the early 1910s, when short films were helping define the language of popular screen storytelling.
For book readers, his name is most often linked to The Million Dollar Mystery, which was published as a novelization from his scenario by Harold MacGrath. That connection makes him an interesting figure at the meeting point of cinema, serialized suspense, and early twentieth-century popular entertainment.