Elliot Paul

Elliot Harold Paul (February 10, 1891 – April 7, 1958) was an American journalist and writer.

Biography Paul was born in Linden, a part of Malden, Massachusetts, the son of Harold Henry Paul and Lucy Greenleaf Doucette. He graduated from Malden High School then worked in the U.S. West on the government Reclamation projects for several years until 1914 when he returned home and took a job as a reporter covering legislative events at the State House in Boston. In 1917, he joined the U.S. Army Signals Corps to fight in World War I. The Mysterious Mickey Finn (1939) Hugger Mugger in the Louvre (1940) Mayhem in B-Flat (1940) Fracas in the Foothills (1940) I'll Hate Myself in the Morning (1945) Murder on the Left Bank (1951) The Black Gardenia (1952) Waylaid in Boston (1953) The Black and the Red (1956)

Non-fiction Life and Death of a Spanish Town (1937) Intoxication Made Easy (1941) The Last Time I Saw Paris (1942) Springtime in Paris (1950)

Understanding the French (1954/55) Film Flam (1956) That Crazy American Music (1957) ———————