Richard Connell, born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1893, was a popular author and journalist whose short stories were regularly published in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s Weekly . His story, The Most Dangerous Game is his best remembered work, which we feature in our Mystery Stories.
Connell produced a number of screenplays and movie scripts, receiving an Academy Awards nomination in 1942 for best original story, Meet John Doe.