author
Lawrence Perry
1875–1954
A journalist-novelist who moved easily between sports, theater, and fiction, he built a varied writing career in newspapers, magazines, and books. He is especially remembered today for his war writing and for novels drawn from American life in the early 20th century.
3 Audiobooks
Our Navy in the War
by Lawrence Perry
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport
by Lawrence Perry
Dan Merrithew
by Lawrence Perry
About the author
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Lawrence Perry was an American author, sports reporter, and drama critic. Sources about his papers and career describe him as an early syndicated sports columnist who also wrote novels, plays, short stories, poems, and articles, giving him a notably wide range as a working writer.
He attended Princeton University and then went into journalism, writing for newspapers and later for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Alongside that reporting life, he published fiction including Prince or Chauffeur?, Dan Merrithew, and The Fullback, and he became especially well known for the nonfiction book Our Navy in War.
Perry died in 1954. Archival collections connected with his papers suggest a long, active literary life, preserving manuscripts, correspondence, clippings, and other material that reflect both his newsroom career and his work as a creative writer.