As per our current Database, Kent Curtis has been died on Dec 24, 1957 (age 67).
When Kent Curtis die, Kent Curtis was 67 years old.
Popular As | Kent Curtis |
Occupation | Novelist |
Age | 67 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Libra |
Born | October 10, 1890 (Kansas) |
Birthday | October 10 |
Town/City | Kansas |
Nationality | Kansas |
Kent Curtis’s zodiac sign is Libra. According to astrologers, People born under the sign of Libra are peaceful, fair, and they hate being alone. Partnership is very important for them, as their mirror and someone giving them the ability to be the mirror themselves. These individuals are fascinated by balance and symmetry, they are in a constant chase for justice and equality, realizing through life that the only thing that should be truly important to themselves in their own inner core of personality. This is someone ready to do nearly anything to avoid conflict, keeping the peace whenever possible
Kent Curtis was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
Remembered for his historical novel The Tired Captains, Curtis based the work on his World War I experience as a member of the Royal Air Force. His other books include Cruises in the Sun, Drumbeater's Island, and The Last Wanigan.
He briefly studied at Amherst College and went on to train at the University of Illinois' Military Aeronautics School. He was subsequently sent to Europe as a member of an American unit of the British Royal Flying Corp.
His book The Blushing Camel earned the praise of renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The child of Charles and Grace Curtis and the great-grandson of prominent Ohio businessman Marvin Kent, he spent his childhood in Wichita, Kansas and Chicago, Illinois.
Upon his father's marriage to Hart Crane's divorced mother, Curtis became the stepbrother of the famous poet.