Dale Van Every

July 23, 1896 (age 79)

Michigan, United States of America

When the United States entered World War I, "in his junior year at he enlisted with the Stanford ambulance unit, serving overseas for about three years, first in the ambulance corps, later as a commissioned officer in the Convois Automobils. He eventually quit and pursued writing. With Morris DeHaven Tracy, he wrote a biography of Charles Lindbergh which was published in 1927, the year Lindbergh made his famous solo trip across the Atlantic. He also wrote a number of historical non-fiction works, including a four-volume series on the American frontier experience. His first novel, Telling the World, was made into a 1928 movie of the same name. William Haines played a journalist who gets involved in a murder. Van Every went to Hollywood to work on the film and began writing screenplays. In 1934, he was paid a salary of $52,500 by Paramount Pictures, $250 less than Mary Pickford and $1000 more than Walt Disney. Later, he also produced some films. They had two children before "an interlocutory judgment of divorce was entered in the Superior Court of the State of California" in July 1935.

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Background

Every, Dale Van was born on July 23, 1896 in Levering, Michigan, United States. Son of Wilbert Maurice and Estella (Palmer) Van Every.

Education

He graduated from a San Bernardino, California-area high school in 1914 and attended Stanford University. He graduated from Stanford in 1920 and went to work for the United Press news agency, first in New York, then around 1921, as a bureau chief in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Career

When the United States entered World War I, "in his junior year at he enlisted with the Stanford ambulance unit, serving overseas for about three years, first in the ambulance corps, later as a commissioned officer in the Convois Automobils. He eventually quit and pursued writing. With Morris DeHaven Tracy, he wrote a biography of Charles Lindbergh which was published in 1927, the year Lindbergh made his famous solo trip across the Atlantic.

He also wrote a number of historical non-fiction works, including a four-volume series on the American frontier experience.

His first novel, Telling the World, was made into a 1928 movie of the same name. William Haines played a journalist who gets involved in a murder.

Van Every went to Hollywood to work on the film and began writing screenplays. In 1934, he was paid a salary of $52,500 by Paramount Pictures, $250 less than Mary Pickford and $1000 more than Walt Disney.

Later, he also produced some films.

They had two children before "an interlocutory judgment of divorce was entered in the Superior Court of the State of California" in July 1935.

Achievements

Dale Van Every has been listed as a notable writer by Marquis Who's Who.

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Married Ellen Calhoun, April. Married second, Florence Mclaine Mason, November 12, 1937. Children: David, Joan.

Father:: Wilbert Maurice Every
Mother:: Estella (Palmer) Van Every
Spouse:: Florence Mclaine Mason
Spouse:: Ellen Calhoun
child:: Joan Every
child:: David Every

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