William Brown Meloney (1902–1971)

William Brown Meloney V[1] (May 4, 1902– May 4, 1971)[2] was a journalist, novelist, short-story writer and theatrical producer.

[3][4] Meloney studied at Columbia College, graduated in 1926, and lectured in English and comparative literature there.

[5] He first became a lawyer and joined the law offices of William J. Donovan and managed his campaign for the Governor of New York in 1932.

[5] In 1929 he had an affair with Priscilla Fansler Hobson, the future wife of Alger Hiss, who became pregnant with Meloney's child and then underwent an abortion.

[9] In the mid-1930s, Meloney was writing motion picture scripts with Rose Dorothy Lewin Franken, and the two were married on April 27, 1937.