Biography

J.D. Newsom was born in Shanghai, China. He was a writer, known for We're in the Legion Now (1936), Trouble in Morocco (1937) and De la sartén al fuego (1935). He died on April 27, 1954 in the USA.

Brought up in France and educated at Cambridge University. Worked as an anthropologist in Melanesia and later spent time in Morocco. He served as a captain in the British Army in France in World War I and as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy in World War II. He was the author of several novels about the French Foreign Legion. Newsom served as Michigan director of the Federal Writers Project in 1938 and national director in 1939.