Will Levington Comfort

Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1878, Will Levington Comfort grew up in Detroit and went on to become a journalist, war correspondent, and novelist. Reliable reference sources describe him as a U.S. writer best known for adventure fiction, with Apache among his most recognized books.

Comfort served in the 5th United States Cavalry during the Spanish-American War, and later worked as a correspondent in Asia. Those experiences helped give his fiction its restless, wide-ranging energy, and several of his stories were adapted for film.

Alongside his popular novels and short fiction, he also wrote on spiritual and theosophical subjects later in life. He died in Los Angeles, California, in 1932.