author
Russell Holman
A little-known Hollywood-era novelist, he specialized in turning silent-film stories into fast, readable books. His work offers a rare glimpse of how early Paramount pictures were adapted for readers in the 1920s.
1 Audiobook
Cobra
by Martin Brown, Russell Holman
About the author
Russell Holman was an American novelist associated with Paramount Pictures, active from roughly the 1920s into the 1950s. Sources describe him as a Paramount employee, and Wikimedia Commons identifies him more specifically as the studio's director of advertising and later head of East Coast productions.
He is best remembered for novelizations tied to silent-era films. Works linked to him include The Cheat (1923), The Story Without a Name (1924), The Freshman (1925), and Speedy (1928). Those books show how movie studios extended popular screen stories into print at a time when film tie-ins were still a fairly new idea.
Very little biographical detail appears to be widely documented online, so much of his personal life remains unclear. Even so, his surviving books and film-related credits make him an interesting figure in early Hollywood publishing history.