Arthur J. Burks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Arthur J. Burks

American writer

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1898

Place of Birth: Waterville, Washington, United States

Date of Death: 13-May-1974

Profession: military officer, novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Arthur J. Burks

  • Arthur J.
  • Burks (September 13, 1898 – May 13, 1974) was an american writer and Marine coronel. Burks was born to a farming family in Waterville, Washington.
  • He married Blanche Fidelia Lane on March 23, 1918, in Sacramento, California, and was the father of four children: Phillip Charles, Wasle Carmen, Arline Mary, and Gladys Lura.
  • He served in the United States Marine Corps in World War I, and began writing in 1920.
  • After being stationed in the Dominican Republic and inspired by the native voodoo rituals he heard about from Haitian prisoners in a military jail, Burks began to write stories of the supernatural that he sold to the magazine Weird Tales in 1924.
  • In late 1927 he resigned from the Marine Corps and began writing full-time.
  • He became one of the "million-word-a-year" men in the pulp magazines by virtue of his tremendous output.
  • He wrote in the neighborhood of 800 stories for the pulps.
  • He was well known for being able to take any household object that someone would suggest to him on a dare, and instantly generate a plot based around it.
  • His byline was commonplace on pulp covers.
  • He wrote primarily in the genres of aviation, detective, adventure, science fiction, sports (primarily boxing), and weird menace.
  • Two genres he was not to be found in were love and westerns.
  • He wrote several series for the pulps, including the Kid Friel boxing stories in Gangster Stories, and the Dorus Noel undercover-detective stories for All Detective Magazine, set in Manhattan's Chinatown.
  • The pressure of producing so much fiction caused him to ease off in the late-1930s.
  • He returned to active duty as the U.S.
  • entered World War II and eventually retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
  • Burks moved to Paradise in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1948, where he continued to write until his death in 1974.
  • Throughout the 1960s, he wrote many works on metaphysics and the paranormal.
  • In his later years, he lectured on paranormal activities and gave readings.

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