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Kent Curtis
Marvin Kent Curtis (October 10, 1890 – December 24, 1957) was an American novelist, illustrator, composer, yachtsman, and teacher. Curtis served in World War I as an aviator with the Royal Air Force, was shot down, reported dead, and held prisoner of war until the war's end. Based on his war experiences, he authored ''The Tired Captains'', a novel centered on a group of World War I pilots. Curtis was of the "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He lived intermittently in Paris during the 1920s. Curtis published primarily boys’ adventure stories set in the places where he lived: the North Woods of Minnesota and the islands off the Florida coast. ==Early years== Curtis was born in Wichita, Kansas to Charles E. Curtis and Grace Emily Kent. Curtis was named for his famous great-grandfather Marvin Kent, for whom Kent, Ohio was named.〔Briggs, L. Vernon. Genealogies of the Different Families Bearing the Name of Kent in the United States together with Their Possible English Ancestry A.D. 1295–1898. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill Press. 1898.〕 Curtis graduated in 1909 from Lake View High School (Chicago, Illinois), the year before the Kent Normal School, later Kent State University, was founded on land donated by William S. Kent, the brother of Curtis’ grandfather.〔Troyer, Loris. Portage Pathways. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press. 1998.〕 Following high school, Curtis completed his college preparatory work at Tome School for Boys in Port Deposit, Maryland. Curtis entered Amherst College in 1910 as a member of the Class of 1914. There he contributed to the Amherst Olio and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Amherst Four Leaf Clover.〔The Olio. Amherst, Mass:Junior Class of Amherst College. Volume LV:1912, Volume LVI:1913, Volume LVII:1914.〕 He left the college without graduating.
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