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The Author. (John) Herbert Quick, like Fremont McConkey, was born in Iowa (Oct. 23, 1861), reared on a farm, educated in country schools. He has had a varied career as teacher, lawyer, associate editor of La Follette's Weekly, editor of Farm and Fireside and free-lance writer. He fought the boodlers of Sioux City, was three times nominated for its Mayor and once elected. In 1920 he was Chairman of the Commission in Charge of Affairs in the Far East of the American Red Cross. He now lives in West Virginia. Until the appearance of Vandemark's Folly (widely praised as a fine American historical novel) in 1921, he was chiefly known in the literary field as the author of such thrillers as Virginia of the Air Lanes and Alladin & Co.
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