- Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, a former journalist and writer of pulp fiction for magazines. His works range from the sentimental "Glory for Me" (popularly filmed as The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)) to tough crime stories like "Gun Crazy" (1950) (filmed as Gun Crazy (1950)) and "Diversey" (1928). Some of his novels deal with historical subjects, such as the American Civil War.
- Was a war correspondent for a Los Angeles newspaper, working out of London during World War II.
- Kantor's "V-J Day Plus Five Years," published in the August 1950 REDBOOK magazine, details a war widow's new life after World War II.
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