Humphrey Cobb (1899-1944) was born in Siena, Italy, on September 5,
1899, to Alice Littell Cobb, a physician, and Arthur Murray Cobb,
an artist. He attended boarding school in England during his
childhood. Cobb was kicked out of an American high school and he
never returned to graduate. At seventeen he decided to enlist in
the Canadian army. After serving in the army for three years during
World War I, he returned to the United States to work by turns in
the stock trade, the merchant marines, publishing, advertising, and
the Office of War Information (precursor of the OSS, the CIA
predecessor) writing overseas propaganda. During his lifetime he
wrote Paths of Glory (1935) and None But the Brave (1938), and was
the lead screenwriter on the movie San Quentin (1937).
James H. Meredith, a retired United States Air Force lieutenant
colonel, is the introducer of the Penguin Classics editions ofPaths
of Gloryby Humphrey Cobb andBombs Awayby John Steinbeck.
David Simon is the creator of the critically acclaimed HBO series
The Wire, and the author of Homicide- A Year on the Killing
Streetsand The Corner- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City
Neighborhood.
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