Kent Curtis
Marvin Kent Curtis (October 10, 1890 – December 24, 1957) was an American aviator,
novelist,
illustrator, yachtsman, and teacher. Curtis served in
World War I as an aviator with the
Royal Air Force, was shot down, reported dead, and held prisoner of war until the war's end. Based on his war experiences, he authored ''The Tired Captains'', a novel centered on a group of World War I pilots. Curtis was of the "
Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He lived intermittently in
Paris during the 1920s. Curtis published primarily boys’ adventure stories set in the places where he lived: the
North Woods of
Minnesota and the islands off the
Florida coast.
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