Biographie
Harold Everett Porter, who often wrote under the pen name Holworthy Hall, was a once popular author of light fiction. He was, at the height of his popularity, a frequent contributor of short stories and serials to The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Harper's, American Magazine and Colliers.
Porter was the son of New York publisher, Albert de Lance Porter. His mother, the former Louella Root, was born in Ohio and raised in Massachusetts. She was the daughter of a minister who had served as an officer with the Union army during the American Civil War.
A 1909 graduate of Harvard (the home of Holworthy Hall), Porter's best remembered works are probably "The Six Best Cellars" (1919) with Hugh McNair Kahler and "The Valiant" a one-act play, published in 1921, that he co-wrote with Harvard classmate, Robert Middlemass. His last book "Colossus" was released in 1930, with a dedication to his friend and literary agent, Harold Ober.
After graduating from Harvard, Porter worked for his father's publishing firm, A. D. Porter Company, serving as president from 1910 to 1916.
Porter served with the US Army Air Corp during the First World War and was assigned to military intelligence where he rose to the rank of captain. During much of the 1920s, Porter, along with his wife and children, lived on the French Riviera, where his love of golf seemed to replace his love of writing.
Harold Everett Porter died of pneumonia on June 21, 1936, at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, Connecticut. He was survived by his wife, a daughter and two sons.
