He had a few successes and remained in Mt. He wrote and wrote, many stories typed out on an old "Remington" but of the Sunday School stories, the spicy sex stories, the detective stories, the sports stories, the love stories, very few sold, with some companies paying him as little as a quarter of a cent per word. In 1932 the Depression hit, and he lost his job. He had lots of money and even wrote some articles for the papers but found he had no time to write the stories he wanted to write. In September he got a better paid job in Iowa and soon found himself editing five farm papers. It was called "The Two Dollar Raise" and he got a cheque through for three dollars and fifty cents.Īnswering an ad in the Chicago Tribune, he got a job editing a small farm paper. It was bought by The United Brethren Publishing House of Dayton. Erle Stanley Gardner called him the fighter who licked his weight in rejection slips.įebruary 1927, he finally sold a story. As a story came back with a rejection slip, he would post it off again to someone else, so he could have as many as forty stories going back and forth at different times, costing him about a third of his earnings in postage. The pulps were getting noticed and Gruber tried those but with no success. Getting rejected, he lowered his sights to The Saturday Evening Post and Colliers, with no more success. He had written his first book before age 11, using a pencil on wrapping paper.Īge 13 or 14, his ambition died for a while but several years later it rose again and he started submitting stories to various magazines, like Smart Set and Atlantic Monthly. They told how poor boys became rich, but what they instilled in Gruber was an ambition at age nine or 10, to be an author. During the next seven years he read a hundred more Alger books and said they influenced him professionally more than anything else in his life. Gruber said that as a 9-year-old newsboy, he read his first book, "Luke Walton, the Chicago Newsboy" by Horatio Alger. He sometimes wrote under the pen names Stephen Acre, Charles K.
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Gruber wrote many scripts for Hollywood movies and television shows, and was the creator of three TV series. He also wrote dozens of novels, mostly Westerns and detective stories. He was an author of stories for pulp fiction magazines. That's very much Rate this script: (0.00 / 0 votes)įrank Gruber (born February 2, 1904, Elmer, Minnesota, died December 9, 1969, Santa Monica, California) was an American writer. Important thing to know about an assassination
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