Franklin Gregory

Franklin Long Gregory was an American writer and journalist, born on September 16, 1905, and remembered today chiefly for his horror novel The White Wolf. Bibliographic sources also credit him with The Cipher of Death (1934), giving him a compact but intriguing place in early twentieth-century popular fiction.

Gregory studied journalism at the University of Iowa. Later, he worked for The Philadelphia Record, and in 1947 he joined The Star-Ledger of Newark, New Jersey. Accounts of his newspaper career say he spent many years there, including a long stretch as chief of the Trenton bureau, where he also wrote a weekly column.

He died on December 24, 1985. While he was not a prolific novelist, his name has endured thanks to readers and small presses that kept The White Wolf in circulation for new generations.