Hubert V. Coryell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hubert V. Coryell

American author

Date of Birth: 24-Dec-1889

Place of Birth: Cornwall, New York, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: writer

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Hubert Vansant Coryell (December 24, 1889, Cornwall, New York – February 1979, Holualoa, Hawaii) was a teacher, author, and popular author of boys’ fiction.
He was the third son of legendary dime novelist John R.
Coryell. Like his three brothers, Hubert V.
Coryell attended Harvard University; he graduated in 1911.
He began working as a teacher fresh out of college, starting in a segregated school in St.
Louis.
He taught in a variety of schools before settling back in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He was an English teacher and later a school principal, while writing professionally on the side.
His younger brother Russell M.
Coryell was also a teacher and author. Hubert V.
Coryell married Etta Verona Child in 1912.
By 1922, they had three children. Hubert V.
Coryell wrote numerous articles about education, often focusing on boys’ issues.
He co-authored, with Henry W.
Holmes, dean of the Harvard School of Education, Word Finder (1921), a reference book for elementary school children.
He wrote fiction and nonfiction for the Macfadden Publications, the publisher that had been so instrumental in his father’s writing career.
These magazines include Physical Culture, National Brain Power, Midnight Mystery Stories, Movie Weekly, and Ghost Stories.
An untold amount of his Macfadden work was published under pennames.
In the 1930s, he specialized in adventure novels for boys.