Elliot Paul was born in Linden (Massachusetts) in 1891 and died in Providence (Rhode Island) in 1958. Journalist and writer, cultivated various literary genres, wrote scripts and film criticism. He fought in World War I, and in 1925 he moved to Paris, where he worked for the Chicago Tribune and New York Herald newspapers. In the French capital he was also co-editor of Transition magazine. In the early thirties he came to Spain and, between 1931 and 1936, settled in Santa Eulalia del Río, an Ibiza town that he left after the outbreak of the Civil War, shortly before the entry of Italian fascist troops into the island. After a new stay in Paris, he returned to the United States, where he worked intensely as a screenwriter.