Courtney Ryley Cooper
ABOUT COURTNEY RYLEY COOPER
An American circus performer and author, he wrote such popular works as Here's to Crime and Ten-Thousand Public Enemies. The latter work celebrates the FBI.
He left home at age sixteen to join the circus and worked as a clown before becoming the circus's general manager.
He wrote the screenplay for Wild Cargo.
He committed suicide; the motivation for the act is still unclear.
He was Annie Oakley 's first biographer.
