Norman Daniels Papers

Norman Daniels was born in Connecticut in 1905. He attended Columbia University and Northwestern University, and he worked at several jobs before turning to writing full-time in the 1930s. He married the former Dorothy Smith in 1931.

Daniels' best-known creation during the era of the pulp thriller magazines was Tony Quinn, "the Black Bat," whose adventures he chronicled in Black Book Detective from 1939 TO 1952. He also contributed to the Doc Savage, Phantom Detective, and Don Winslow of the Navy series, among others, and wrote stories in the sports, science fiction, western, and other genres.

In the broadcast field, Daniels wrote many scripts and stories for radio and worked as scriptwriter for the Nick Carter radio series. In the 1950s Daniels sold dramas and Westerns to television and saw two of his short stories adapted for Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Through the 1960s and ‘70s, Daniels wrote for mystery magazines and mass-market paperbacks. His books include spy thrillers, adaptations of television shows, doctor and nurse novels, Gothics and romances, some of which were published under the name of his wife Dorothy.

Norman Daniels last works were a five novel series set at the "Wyndward" plantation in the years surrounding the Civil War. He and his wife, Dorothy, lived in Camarillo, California, until Norman's death in 1995.