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Eugene Willford "Gene" Markey (December 11, 1895 - May 1, 1980) was an American author, producer, screenwriter, and highly decorated naval officer. Markey was born in Jackson, Michigan on December 11, 1895. His father, Eugene Lawrence Markey, was a Colonel in the United States Army. His uncle, Daniel P. Markey had been Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1918. With the entry of the United States into World War I, Markey became a lieutenant in the infantry and saw action at the Battle of Belleau Wood. He was a skilled sketch artist, which... MORE

Eugene Willford "Gene" Markey (December 11, 1895 - May 1, 1980) was an American author, producer, screenwriter, and highly decorated naval officer. Markey was born in Jackson, Michigan on December 11, 1895. His father, Eugene Lawrence Markey, was a Colonel in the United States Army. His uncle, Daniel P. Markey had been Speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1918. With the entry of the United States into World War I, Markey became a lieutenant in the infantry and saw action at the Battle of Belleau Wood. He was a skilled sketch artist, which gained him entry, after the war, into the Art Institute of Chicago starting in 1919 and finishing in 1920. There, he claimed to have "studied painting and learned nothing". After that, he worked as a journalist in Chicago for several newspapers and magazines, including Photoplay magazine. It was during the 1920s that Gene Markey first became a writer, specializing in novels about the Jazz Age. Among his titles were Anabel, Stepping High, Women, Women, Everywhere, and His Majesty's Pajamas. His book "Literary Lights" (March 1923, Alfred A. Knopf, New York) was a collection of fifty of America's LESS