[1] One year out of college, Hume was a $25-a-week "cub reporter" for the New York World when he wrote his first novel, Wife of the Centaur.

[2] It was published by the George H. Doran Company in October 1923 and listed at $2.50 as "A novel of youth and love today so poignant and vivid that it will attract wide attention."

[3] Hume wrote for 29 films between 1924 and 1966, including Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), Flying Down to Rio (1933), The Great Gatsby (1949), Tokyo Joe (1949) and Forbidden Planet (1956).

[10] Hume died on March 26, 1966, just 10 days after his 66th birthday, at his home in Palos Verdes, California.

[3] He was buried in the Whispering Pines section of Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.