The Trouper
An American novelist of Norwegian stock, NORMAN MATSON TELLS US that he was born in the shadow of a factory in an industrial town in the Middle West and raised in a working-class district of San Francisco. After a short tour in railroading, he turned to journalism, working on California labor newspapers. He moved East from paper to paper, landing eventually in New York, where in 1926 he published his first novel, a fantasy entitled Flecker’s Magic, which was appreciatively reviewed by E. M. Forster.