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Chester (GEORGE RANDOLPH an American)

GEORGE RANDOLPH, an American author; born in Ohio, in 1869. He left home at an early age, worked as reporter on the Detroit "News" and Cincinnati "Enquirer, " but later gave himself entirely to the writing of books and stories for the magazines. His reputation as a writer is based chiefly on his "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" stories, concerned with the swindling adventures of a confidence man. He has also written "Early Bird" (1910); "Five Thousand an Hour (1911); etc., and (in collaboration with his wife, Lillian Chester) "The Ball of Fire" (1914); "Runaway June"; and "The Enemy" (1915). a