Background
Smith, Ruel Perley was born on December 16, 1869 in Bangor, Maine, United States. Son of Ruel and Maria (Wood) Smith.
Smith, Ruel Perley was born on December 16, 1869 in Bangor, Maine, United States. Son of Ruel and Maria (Wood) Smith.
Educated Bangor public schools, and Harvard Law School.
Born in Bangor, Maine, Smith made his career as a newspaper reporter in New York, eventually becoming Night City Editor (and Sunday Editor) of the New York World in the 1920s. The Rival Camper series of boy"s books were set in Smith"s native Maine. The series ceased by the second decade of the twentieth century.
When Smith again tried his hand at a novel, in the early 1920s, it was aimed at an adult audience.
Prisoners of Fortune: A Tale of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Boston: LC Page, 1924) was actually a pirate story with Massachusetts as only one location. Smith was married to Ellen Cyr Smith (Ellen M Cyr) (d 1920), author of the widely used Cyr"s Readers series for elementary school children.
Married Mission Ellen M. Cyr, June 19, 1896.