Biography
Whitman Chambers was an American novelist and screenwriter. Born Elwyn Whitman Chambers on 8 December 1896 in Stockton, California, he graduated from the University of California in 1920 after naval service in the First World War and worked as a reporter for San Francisco newspapers. He began publishing fiction in the 1920s, initially Western stories, before turning to hard-boiled mystery and suspense novels, several set in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Chambers spent seventeen years in Hollywood as a screenwriter for studios including Paramount, United Artists, Universal and Warner Bros. His credits include the screenplay for Shadow of a Woman (1946), Manhandled (1949) and an uncredited contribution to To Have and Have Not (1945). Several of his novels were adapted for film, among them Once Too Often as Blonde Ice (1948) and The Come-On (1956). He also wrote for television series in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Chambers died on 20 July 1968 in Los Angeles.
