3. He was a soldier in the Gordon Highlander of Canada, bank clerk, journalist, executive of a petroleum company, where he was fired for harassing secretaries, and attempted suicide. He worked as a reporter for the London Daily Express and the Bristol Western Gazette (1908-1912)
4. Participated in the First World War and returned to California, where he lived and the rest of his life. When his mother died in 1924, he married Pearl Cecily Bowen
5. After the death of his wife in 1954, the writer suffered from severe depression, increased alcoholism and attempted suicide twice.