Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1876 - 1944)

Born 23 Jun 1876 in Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky, United States

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Died 11 Mar 1944 at age 67 in New York City, New York, United States

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Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States. Cobb also wrote more than 60 books and 300 short stories. Some of his works were adapted for silent movies. Several of his Judge Priest short stories were adapted in the 1930s for two feature films directed by John Ford.

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• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4357
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvin_S._Cobb