Marvin Kent Curtis was an American novelist, illustrator, and teacher. Curtis served in World War I as an aviator with the Royal Air Force, was shot down, reported dead, and held prisoner of war until the war's end. Based on his war experiences, he authored The Tired Captains, a novel centered around a group of WWI pilots. Curtis was of the "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during WWI. He lived intermittently in Paris during the 1920’s.

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  • 1957-12-24 (xsd:date)
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  • Marvin Kent Curtis was an American novelist, illustrator, and teacher. Curtis served in World War I as an aviator with the Royal Air Force, was shot down, reported dead, and held prisoner of war until the war's end. Based on his war experiences, he authored The Tired Captains, a novel centered around a group of WWI pilots. Curtis was of the "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during WWI. He lived intermittently in Paris during the 1920’s. Curtis published primarily boys’ adventure stories set in the North Woods of Minnesota or in the islands off the Florida coast.
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  • boys' adventure stories
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  • Kent Curtis
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  • American
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  • Novelist, camp director
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  • adventure, sailing, WWI
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  • Marvin Kent Curtis was an American novelist, illustrator, and teacher. Curtis served in World War I as an aviator with the Royal Air Force, was shot down, reported dead, and held prisoner of war until the war's end. Based on his war experiences, he authored The Tired Captains, a novel centered around a group of WWI pilots. Curtis was of the "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during WWI. He lived intermittently in Paris during the 1920’s.
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  • Kent Curtis
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  • Kent Curtis
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