Occupation Writer Children Louis Seltzer Role Writer | Name Charles Seltzer Nationality American | |
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Born August 15, 1875
Janesville, Wisconsin ( 1875-08-15 ) Resting place Sunset Memorial Park, North Olmsted, Ohio Genre Western novels, screenplays Died February 9, 1942, Cleveland, Ohio, United States Spouse Ella Albert Selzer (m. ?–1942) Movies Drag Harlan, The Trail to Yesterday, Square Deal Sanderson Books "Firebrand" Trevison, The Coming of the Law, The Trail Horde, The Trail to Yesterday, The Two‑gun Man Similar People J Gordon Edwards, Edward Carewe, Lambert Hillyer, William S Hart, June Mathis | ||
The Coming of the Law - Charles Alden Seltzer [ Full Audiobook ]
Charles Alden Seltzer (August 15, 1875 – February 9, 1942) was an American writer. He was a prolific author of western novels, had writing credits for more than a dozen film titles, and authored numerous stories published in magazines, most prominently in Argosy.
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Life
Seltzer was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, the son of Lucien B. Seltzer and Oceania Hart of Columbus, Ohio. Before becoming a successful writer, he was variously a newsboy, telegraph messenger, painter, carpenter and manager of the circulation of a newspaper, building inspector, editor of a small newspaper, and an appraiser.
He married Ella Seltzer, and they had three sons and two daughters. His son, Louis B. Seltzer, later editor of the Cleveland Press, recalled that the family was quite poor when his father was struggling to break into the writing profession (he wrote two hundred stories before receiving an acceptance). During this time, Seltzer's wife brought him wrapping paper from the butcher to write on.
In addition to Argosy, Seltzer's work also appeared in Adventure, Short Stories, Blue Book, The Outing Magazine, Western Story Magazine and the US edition of Pearson's Magazine.
Seltzer wrote his westerns from the experience of five years living in New Mexico. Towards the end of his life, he was also elected mayor of North Olmsted, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb, from 1930 to 1935.