Paul Gallico
Paul Gallico was born in 1897 in new York of Italian and Austrian parents. After attending Columbia University and serving in the First World War, he became a journalist for the New York Daily News. In 1936 he bought a house on the top of a hill at Salcombe in Devon where he settled down for a year with a Great Dane and twenty-three assorted cats.
Paul Gallico’s first novel, The Adventures of Hiram Holliday, was published by Michael Joseph on 30 November 1939. He went on to write nearly twenty novels for the company including The Snow Goose (1941), Jennie (1950), The Small Miracle (1951), Flowers for Mrs Harris (1958) and Scruffy (1962). Each new book brought further critical acclaim as Paul Gallico put a larger and larger audience under his spell.
Paul Gallico settled in Monaco and died in 1976.
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