William Brown Meloney

William Brown Meloney V (May 4, 1902– May 4, 1971) was a journalist, novelist, short-story writer and theatrical producer.

Biography He was born on May 4, 1902, in Pawling, New York, to William B. Meloney IV and Marie Mattingly Meloney. Meloney studied at Columbia College, graduated in 1926, and lectured in English and comparative literature there. He was a fellow at the University of Paris in 1927–28.

He first became a lawyer and joined the law offices of William J. Donovan and managed his campaign for the Governor of New York in 1932. He later became a journalist like his parents.

Meloney was married first to Elizabeth Ryder Symons of Saginaw, Michigan, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Shirley Symons, then to playwright and screenwriter Rose Franken. He had two sons by his first wife: The first was William Brown Meloney VI (1931–2005) , and a second son born April 8, 1933.

In the mid-1930s, Meloney was writing motion picture scripts with Rose Dorothy Lewin Franken, and the two were married on April 27, 1937. By that time he had become a lawyer and was also an executive on This Week magazine, of which his mother was the editor. Meloney and Franken "relocated to Longmeadow, a working farm in Lyme, Connecticut, which, under their management, was adopted as a model of diversified farming by the local agricultural college at Storrs." The two continued writing, "both individually and collaboratively, for magazines, including Harper's Bazaar and Collier's. They sometimes wrote together under the pseudonym Franken Meloney." )

He died on May 4, at his home in Kent, Connecticut. Many Are the Travelers, 1954

Filmography Shared credit as writer

Beloved Enemy, 1936 Claudia and David, 1946 The Secret Heart, 1946