Marion Polk Angellotti (November 12, 1887 – April 1979) was an American author.

Writings

She wrote short stories for pulp magazines such as ''

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'', including several based on 14th-century

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. Her novel ''

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'', based on the life of

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, was adapted to a film. Lawrence Ellsworth, ''The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure''. New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2014. (p.413) Her other novels are ''Sir John Hawkwood: A Tale of the White Company in Italy'', ''The Three Bags'', ''The Burgundian: A Tale of Old France'', and ''Harlette'' (which is a retelling of her short story "When the Devil Ruled", which had been published in the April 1913 edition of ''The Smart Set'' magazine).

Personal life

The daughter of Frank M. Angellotti, a judge, and his wife, Emma Cornelia Cearley (sometimes mistranscribed as Clearey), Marion Polk Angellotti served as a volunteer canteen worker with the

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from 1918 to 1919, being with an evacuation hospital during the Saint Michel offensive, and with the Army of Occupation in Germany. She died in April 1979, aged 91, and was buried in Bellevue Memorial Park,

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* * Pulp fiction writers 1887 births 1979 deaths American women short story writers American historical novelists Women historical novelists Writers of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages American short story writers {{US-novelist-1880s-stub