author
Marie Coolidge-Rask
A prolific writer of 1920s film tie-ins, this little-known author helped turn silent-era movies into vivid prose for readers at home. Her surviving credits include novelizations tied to classic and now partly lost cinema.
1 Audiobook
Sparrows
by Marie Coolidge-Rask, Winifred Dunn
About the author
Marie Coolidge-Rask was an American writer remembered mainly for novelizations connected to silent films. Reliable catalog-style sources confirm her as the author of works including London After Midnight, La Bohème, and Sparrows, placing her among the writers who helped bring popular screen stories into book form during the 1920s.
She remains a somewhat elusive figure, and detailed biographical information is scarce in the sources I could confirm. Some secondary sources describe her as having worked in journalism before writing these adaptations, but because the available evidence is limited, it is safest to say that her lasting reputation comes from her association with early cinema and its print afterlife.
Today, her name is most often rediscovered by readers interested in silent film history, especially through London After Midnight, the novel version of the famous lost 1927 film. That connection has given her a small but enduring place in the history of movie-related fiction.