Dale Van Every
Dale Van Every (July 23, 1896, Van, Michigan – May 28, 1976, Santa Barbara, California) was an American writer, film producer and studio executive.
His parents were the Wilbert and Estella (Palmer) Van Every from Petoskey, Michigan. He graduated from a San Bernardino, California-area high school in 1914 and attended Stanford University.
When the United States entered World War I, "in his junior year at he enlisted with the Stanford ambulance unit, serving overseas for about three years, first in the ambulance corps, later as a commissioned officer in the Convois Automobils [sic].
He graduated from Stanford in 1920 and went to work for the United Press news agency, first in New York, then around 1921, as a bureau chief in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He eventually quit and pursued writing.
With Morris DeHaven Tracy, he wrote a biography of Charles Lindbergh which was published in 1927, the year Lindbergh made his famous solo trip across the Atlantic. He also wrote a number of historical non-fiction works, including a four-volume series on the American frontier experience. His first novel, Telling the World, was made into a 1928 movie of the same name; William Haines played a journalist who gets involved in a murder.