Clarence Budington Kelland |
| Posted 2016-07-01 by Pat R |
| Lebanon Daily News (Lebanon PA) Wednesday, February 19, 1964, p 2 Famous Writer C. B. Kelland, 82, Dies At Phoenix Phoenix, Ariz. (UPI)--Clarence Budington Kelland, prolific magazine writer and one-time national Republican party leader, died Tuesday night at the age of 82. The highly successful author wrote for the Saturday Evening Post for many years and several of his writings provided the basis for motion pictures, radio programs and television shows. His numerous works included "Scattergood Baines" published in 1921; "Arizona" in 1939; "Sugarfoot" in 1942; "Archibald The Great" in 1943; "The Great Mail Robbery" in 1951; and "The Monitor Affair" in 1960. Kelland was executive director of the Republican National Committee in 1942 and served as Republican National committeeman from Arizona in 1940. He was long active in Arizona GOP affairs. Born in Portland, Mich., July 11, 1881, Kelland began his writing career as a reporter, political editor and Sunday editor for the Detroit News from 1893 until 1907, then became editor of the American Boy magazine in 1907--a post he held until 1915. He was a lecturer on juvenile literature and writing as a profession at the University of Michigan in 1913, 1914 and 1915. The writer leaves two sons, Thomas S. Kelland, a prominent Arizona newspaperman, of Phoenix, and Horace K. Kelland of New York City, and three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. See Also: Find A Grave |
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