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John Monk Saunders (November 22, 1897 – March 11, 1940) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director.
John Monk Saunders (November 22, 1897 – March 11, 1940) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director.
John Monk Saunders is known as an Story, Writer, Screenplay, Dialogue, Director, Theatre Play, and Novel. Some of his work includes Wings, The Docks of New York, The Dawn Patrol, The Dawn Patrol, The Eagle and the Hawk, The Last Flight, A Yank at Oxford, and She Goes to War.
The Dawn Patrol won the Academy Award for Best Story for John Monk Saunders, an American writer said to have been haunted by his inability to get into combat as a flyer with the U.S. Air Service.
These included John Monk Saunders, a Hollywood screenwriter and wwi veteran who published the novel Single Lady in 1931. His narrative imitates the characters, dialogue, and storyline of The Sun Also Rises, but fails to capture any of the novel’s depth or dignity.
Sep 22, 2008 · WHEN JOHN MONK SAUNDERS PUBLISHED THE NOVEL Single Lady in 1931, literary critics regarded the writer as an inept imitator of Ernest Hemingway's style and dismissed the work as a second-rate homage to The Sun Also Rises.
Career: Journalist with Los Angeles Times , 1922, New York Tribune , 1923; associate editor, American Magazine , 1924, and regular contributor to Cosmopolitan and Liberty ; 1925—first film as writer, Too Many Kisses . Award: Academy Award for The Dawn Patrol , 1930–31.
