Background
Costain, Thomas Bertram was born on May 8, 1885 in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Son of a Hundred Kings, 1950.
Costain, Thomas Bertram was born on May 8, 1885 in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Son of a Hundred Kings, 1950.
Educational public schools. Doctor of Literature (honorary), University Western Ontario, 1952.
Came to the United States, 1920, naturalized. Editor Guelph (Ontario) Daily Mercury, 1908-1910, MacLean’s Magazine (Toronto), 1910-1920. Associate editor Sat.
Eve.
Post, 1920-1934. Eastern editor Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, 1934-1936. Became editor American Cavalcade, 1937.
Advisory editor with Doubleday & Company, 1939-1945.
Married Ida Randolph Spragge, January 12, 1910. Children: Molly Randolph (Mistress Howard Haycraft), Ida Dora Phyllis (Mistress Henry Darlington Steinmetz).