Returning
to the United States from his early travels in the Far East in
1929, Mr. Hubbard studied at George Washington University where he
became president of the Flying Club and secretary of the
Engineering Society, and wrote articles, stories and a
prize-winning play for the school's newspaper and literary
magazine.
A
daredevil pilot, he barnstormed across the United States in
gliders and early powered aircraft, becoming a correspondent and
photographer for the Sportsman Pilot,
one of the most important national aviation magazines of its day.
Then, at the age of twenty-five, with his reputation as a writer
of popular fiction already prominently established, he was elected
president of the New York Chapter of the American Fiction Guild,
whose membership at the time included Dashiell Hammett, Raymond
Chandler and Edgar Rice Burroughs. He subsequently also worked in
Hollywood, writing the story and script for Columbia's 1937
box-office hit serial The Secret of Treasure
Island, and as a screenwriter and script consultant on
numerous films for Columbia, Universal and other studios.
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