He was born in a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, to Berta Himler and Jenő Királyhegyi. He emigrated to the USA at the age of 19 where at first he worked as a journalist at Hungarian newspapers, from 1927 to 1931 he was a figurant, later a screenwriter in Hollywood. In 1931 he returned to Hungary, and continued working at Hungarian newspapers, such as "Pesti Napló", "Új Idők" or "Színházi Élet", until 1938, when he emigrated to England, from where he came back to Budapest in 1941. Three years later he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, luckily he survived the war and returned to Hungary. In 1950 or 1951 he was relocated to Adács. Although some years later the Communist Regime allowed him to move back to Budapest, they did not let him publish. After the revolution in 1956, they published his writings again, and he also worked as a compere. He died on 7 August 1981.