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John Van Alstyne Weaver, Jr. (July 17, 1893 – June 14, 1938, often credited as John V. A. Weaver) was an American poet, novelist and screenwriter whose poems attracted the approbation of H. L. Mencken, whose works were produced on stage and on film, and who had several screenwriting credits for work on properties where he was not the author ...
In 1926–28 he was drama critic for College Humor. Of his three novels— Margey Wins the Game (1922), Her Knight Comes Riding (1928), and Joy-Girl (1932)—the most widely read was the second, about a Brooklyn stenographer's search for a dream-hero.
Weaver had been, he revealed, a "tea-hound in my youth," and the Jazz Age of the Twenties suited his style and personality. His first book of "shirt-sleeve poetry," In American [4] (1921), went through thirteen printings and made him a prominent figure. As one of the Carl Sandburg [5] and Ring Lardner school, he wrote in the dialect and ...
John Van Alstyne Weaver, Jr. (July 17, 1893 - June 15, 1938) was an American poet, novelist, and screenwriter. Weaver was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, the son of Anne Randolph (Tate) and John Van Alstyne Weaver, Sr., and raised in Chicago, where his family moved when he was less than a...
John Van Alstyn Weaver (July 17, 1893 – June 14, 1938) was a a novelist, poet, and screenwriter. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on July 17, 1893. He graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York in 1914.
Dec 10, 2009 · Weaver, John V. A. (John Van Alstyne), 1893-1938. Publication date 1921 Publisher New York : A.A. Knopf Collection YorkUniversity; toronto Contributor Scott - York ...
John V. A. Weaver was a poet, novelist, and screenwriter; his works were produced both on stage and in film. After graduating from Hamilton College in 1914, Weaver went to work in the newspaper industry - first with the Chicago Daily News and later with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle - and then later worked for Paramount.
