Tom Curry

Thomas Albert Curry (1900–1976), was a 20th-century American pulp fiction writer who began writing crime and detective stories but went on to become one of the more prolific western writers in the genre. Early life Curry was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on November 4, 1900. He attended Columbia College in 1920 and graduated in 1922. In 1923, he worked as a crime reporter for William Randolph Hearst's newspaper the New York American. Some of his early crime stories were taken from this experience. Curry's sister was actress Helen Curry who was married to fellow pulp fiction author F.R. Buckley. Writing career Curry was paid $25.00 for his first story to be published, "Diamond in the Rough", which appeared in the March 1921 edition of pulp magazine People's Favorite