Nina Wilcox Putnam

Active - 1918 - 1999  |   Birth - Nov 28, 1888  |   Death - Mar 11, 1962  |   Genres - Comedy, Drama, Silent Film, Fantasy, Romance | Subgenres - Silent Film, Romantic Comedy, Silent Feature, Supernatural Horror Film, Musical

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Nina Wilcox Putnam was an American novelist, screenwriter and playwright. She wrote more than 500 short stories, around 1000 magazine articles, and several books in addition to regular newspaper columns, serials, comic books and children's literature. Many of her stories were made into films, including a story that was the basis for the 1932 film The Mummy starring Boris Karloff. She married four times, was estimated to have earned one million dollars from her writing, and drafted the first 1040 income tax form for the IRS.

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