Author: Alvin Rose
Alternate names: Alan Pruitt
Born: 1903
Died: 1983
Bio: Alvin Rose was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was a newspaper reporter in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s, and was one of the first reporters on the scene of the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day massacre on Clark Street. During World War II he served with the U.S. Navy as a Lt. Commander. His first novel, The Restless Corpse, was published in 1947. After the war, he became the commissioner of welfare for Chicago. He served the city until 1967, when he retired as the executive director of the Chicago Housing Authority. He and his wife moved to the San Diego area where, he stated, he intended to write mystery novels and possibly teach journalism. However, no further books of his were published before his death in 1983.