Bookm. 39 ('14): 420 (portrait).
Columbia Univ. Quar. 15 ('13): 341 (portrait).
Cur. Op. 58 ('15): 352 (portrait).
Ind. 71 ('11): 533 (portrait).
Lit. Digest, 48 ('14): 905 (portrait).
New Repub. 2 ('15): 199. (Herrick.)
World's Work, 26 ('13): 221.
+Ben Hecht+--novelist, dramatist.
Born in New York City, 1893. Traveled much until he was eight years old,
then lived in Racine, Wisconsin, and was educated in the Racine high
school. Went to Chicago, intending to join the Thomas Orchestra as
violinist, but instead, joined the staff of the Chicago _Journal_ and
later that of the _Daily News_. War correspondent in Germany.