author
Russell Holman
A little-known American novelist tied closely to Paramount Pictures in the silent-film era, he turned popular movies into brisk, accessible novels. His surviving bibliography offers a snapshot of how Hollywood stories moved onto the printed page in the 1920s.
1 Audiobook
Cobra
by Martin Brown, Russell Holman
About the author
Russell Holman was an American novelist active from roughly the 1920s into the 1950s. Sources connected with Wikisource and Wikidata describe him as a Paramount Pictures employee as well as a novelist, and Commons notes that he worked in advertising and later headed East Coast productions for the studio.
He is best remembered for writing novel versions of Paramount silent films. Works linked to him include The Cheat (1923), The Story Without a Name (1924, with Arthur Stringer), The Freshman (1925), Speedy (1928), and The Fleet's In! (1929). That mix of studio work and fiction suggests he occupied an interesting middle ground between publishing and early Hollywood promotion.
Not much verified biographical detail seems to survive online beyond his professional role and these books, which makes him one of those authors known mainly through the work itself. Even so, his novels remain useful for readers curious about film tie-ins, popular fiction, and the wider world around Paramount in the silent era.