Jeremy Lane, ction writer and

musician 1919
Jeremy Lane
Born April 29, 1893
Died September 19, 1963 (aged
70)
Birmingham, Michigan,
United States
Occupation short story writer, novelist,
band leader, newspaper
reporter, newspaper
advertising salesman
Genres Mystery, Lost World
Jeremy Lane (writer)
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Jeremy Lane (April 29, 1893 - September
19, 1963) was a writer of mystery and lost
world short stories and novels. His stories
appeared in pulp magazines including The
All-Story Weekly, Top-Notch Magazine,
The Smart Set and People's Favorite
Magazine. His books, usually starring his
detective hero Whitney Wheat, included
Death To Drumbeat, Murder Menageries,
Murder Spoils Everything, Kill Him
Tonight, The Left Hand of God and
Murder Has Bright Eyes. His novel, Yellow
Men Sleep, was published by The Century
Company in 1919.
[1]
Born Herman Dale Schuchert in
Mishawaka, Indiana, on April 29, 1893, he
took the pen name Jeremy Lane (and later
legally changed his name to that) to avoid
post-World War I anti-German backlash as
he was beginning his musical and literary
careers.
As Jerry Lane he also led a small dance
band known as The Symphonic Step
Stimulators
(https://commons.wikimedia.org
/wiki/File:Jerry_Lane_billboard_1926.jpg)
which toured the Midwest from the early
1920s into the 1940s. In the 1950s and
1960s he was a reporter and feature
writer for a local newspaper in New York
States Mohawk Valley region.
With his wife Betty (ne Bessie May Ross
1890-1945), he was part of the so-called group who studied in Chicago with
Georges Gurdjie, an Armenian Russian (1877-1949) who combined ideas from
Eastern mysticism and religions with his own ideas about living a full and
productive life.
His daughter Liela (1920-2014), known professionally as Lee Murray, was a
popular radio/TV/cable personality (https://commons.wikimedia.org
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/wiki/File:Lee_Murray_TV_news_1990.jpg) in the Detroit, Michigan area from the
mid-1960s through the 1980s.
Notes
^ "Latest Books" (http://query.nytimes.com
/gst/abstract.html?res=9C0DEFDE1F3BEE3ABC4F53DFBF668382609EDE), The
New York Times Book Review, 1919-09-07: 80
1.
References
Jeremy Lane (writer) (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Jeremy_Lane) at
the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
"Jeremy Lane, 70, Wrote Murder-Mystery Novels" (http://select.nytimes.com
/gst/abstract.html?res=F00916FE3B541A7B93C2AB1782D85F478685F9),
The New York Times, 1963-09-20: 32
Contento, William G. (2008-05-04). "The FictionMags Index"
(http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/s1192.htm#A44935). Retrieved
2008-06-05.
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