Wessel H. Smitter
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Wessel Hyatt Smitter | |
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| Born | May 9, 1892 Plainfield, Michigan |
| Died | November 7, 1951 |
| Occupation | Novelist |
Wessel Hyatt Smitter was an American novelist. He was born in Plainfield, Michigan and worked the early part of his career in advertising for one of the "Big 3" auto makers. He soon left that career and moved to Hollywood, where he wrote F.O.B. Detroit, which was made into the 1941 movie, Reaching for the Sun, starring Joel McCrae and Ellen Drew.[1]
Partial bibliography
Novels
- F.O.B. Detroit (1938)
- Another Warning (1941)
Short stories
- "The Hand", republished in Timeless Stories for Today and Tomorrow
References
- ^ "Wessel Smitter". IMDB. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
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