Richard Edward Connell Jr.
Born: October 17, 1893
Died: November 22, 1949
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.