Humphrey Cobb

Humphrey Cobb (September 5, 1899 – April 25, 1944) was an Italian-born, Canadian-American screenwriter and novelist. He is known for writing the novel "Paths of Glory" (1935), which was made into an acclaimed 1957 film "Paths of Glory" by Stanley Kubrick. Cobb was also the lead screenwriter on the 1937 film "San Quentin", starring Humphrey Bogart.
Life.
Cobb was born in Siena, Italy. He was the son of American parents, Arthur Cobb, an artist, and his wife Alice Littell Cobb, a physician. Cobb's parents sent him to school in England for his primary education and at age 13 he came to the United States to continue his schooling. 
After being expelled from high school at age 17, he traveled to Montreal to enlist in a Canadian regiment. He served with the Canadian Army for three years during the First World War and fought in the Battle of Amiens. 
Following the war, Cobb worked in the stock trade, the merchant marine, publishing, advertising, and the Office of War Information writing overseas propaganda. He wrote "Paths of Glory", while employed by George Gallup at New York's Young & Rubicam advertising agency.
Cobb wrote a second less well received novel, "None But the Brave", which was serialized in "Collier's Weekly" in 1938. From 1935 to 1940 he was employed as a screenwriter. 
He died of coronary thrombosis at his home in Port Washington, New York on April 25, 1944. At the time of his death, Cobb was an advertising copywriter for the New York firm of Kenyon & Eckhardt. He was survived by a widow, the former Annie Louise Hubbard, a son William, daughter Alice, and sister, Dr. Virginia Cobb.