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Laurence Tucker Stallings (November 25, 1894 – February 28, 1968) was an American playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, literary critic, journalist, novelist, and photographer.
Laurence Stallings, who graduated with a Master’s degree from the School of Foreign Service in 1922, turned his experience as a wounded veteran in the First World War into inspiration for a career as a journalist, author, and playwright.
Laurence Tucker Stallings was an American playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, literary critic, journalist, novelist, and photographer. The World War I veteran was noted for his anti-war book The First World War: A Photographic History. Stallings was born Laurence Tucker Stallings in Macon, Georgia.
A novelist, short-story writer, playwright, screenwriter, editor, and historian, Stallings authored the war novel Plumes (1924), co-authored the popular drama What Price Glory (1924)—which was made into a film in 1926—and supplied the plot outline for The Big Parade (1925), one of the most successful films of the silent era.
Laurence Stallings, a Marine who lost a leg at Belleau Wood, who went on to be a famous writer and playwright ("What Price Glory?"), has written the definitive history of the life of the American soldier in World War I. Filled with both personal stories and sweeping unit histories, "The Doughboys" gives a clear picture of the war following ...
Laurence Stallings. 4.23. 13 ratings4 reviews. An autobiographical novel of the Great War's aftermath, Plumes is the story of the personal trials of a soldier, returned from the front disabled and disillusioned, and of the wife and child he left behind.
Laurence Stallings was born on 25 November 1894 in Macon, Georgia, USA. He was a writer, known for She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), The Jungle Book (1942) and Song of the West (1930). He was married to Louise St. Leger Vance and Helen Purefoy Poteat.
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Plumes. Laurence Stallings. Univ of South Carolina Press, 2006 - Fiction - 353 pages. An autobiographical novel of the Great War's aftermath, Plumes is the story of the personal trials of a...
Laurence Stallings. Harper & Row, 1963 - World War, 1914-1918 - 404 pages. The story of the Doughboys of the American Expeditiionary Force who went to France in 1917-1918 to "make the world safe...
Laurence Stallings (1894-1968) was an American writer. He is probably best known for his 1924 play, "What Price Glory," co-written with Maxwell Anderson, and his autobiographical novel, Plumes, which narrated his military service during World War I. Stallings graduated from Wake Forest in 1916 and joined the United States Marine Reserve in 1917.
