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- Wilbur Finley Fauley was born on October 15, 1872 in Fultonham, Ohio, USA. He was a writer, known for Jenny Be Good (1920) and Queenie (1921). He died on December 21, 1942 in New York, New York, USA.
- Aka: Wilbur Fawley, working name of US author Wilbur Finley Fauley. He also published novels under his name as originally spelled, usually thrillers.
- Among the events he covered were the assassination of President McKinley (1901), the General Slocum disaster (1904). He was actually present at the Madison Square Garden roof garden when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White. He also covered the wedding of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ethel du Pont.
- Financed his first trip to England with shorthand and typing skills where he lived in Thackeray's old home in London while he explored the England of Thackeray and Dickens. This became useful later in his novels.
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