George Sprague Brooks (1895–1961) was a playwright, writer, editor and lecturer whose work appeared frequently in the Saturday Evening Post.
George S. Brooks attended Middleburg Academy, Salt Lake Collegiate Institute and the high school at Warsaw, New York.
The two had youthful plans of building a law practice together, but when Brooks failed the freshman English course he withdrew from college and pursued other career paths.
When the US entered World War I, he enlisted in 302nd Ammunition Train with the American Expeditionary Forces overseas, and became what is otherwise known as a "doughboy".
Brooks was one of a group of 249 American soldiers—both officers and enlisted men—who briefly attended the University of Poitiers as full-time students in 1919 after having fought on the Western Front.
[5] Long thought to be lost, the play was rediscovered in the basement of the 5th Avenue New York public library and was revived by the L.A. Theatre Works radio theatre company who made an audio recording of the play in 1999 with actors Fred Savage, Ed Asner and Sharon Gless.
This engagement was extended to two years during which time he adapted his story of newspaper people For Two Cents into Big News (1929) starring Carole Lombard.
Brooks's final work in Hollywood was the 1930 movie Double Cross Roads, which he adapted from the novel Yonder Grow The Daisies by William R.
In 1926, he edited James Durand An Able Seaman Of 1812: His Adventures On Old Ironsides And As An Impressed Sailor In The British Navy.