Date of birth: 1 September 1877
Date of death: 7 December 1949
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Born in Michigan, USA, a lawyer, then a gold prospector in the Klondike for five years, then a writer with a successful first novel based on his Alaskan experience, from which several films were made. He also won a Olympic silver medal in water polo (Wikipedia).

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