Perley Poore Sheehan
Perley Poore Sheehan (7 June 1875 in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States – 30 September 1943 in Sierra Madre, California, United States) was an American film writer, novelist and film director. He was once married to Virginia Point (1902-unknown). Sheehan also wrote detective and adventure fiction for the pulp magazines. Sheehan wrote two fantasy novels, "The Abyss of Wonders" (1915), about a lost civilisation in the Gobi Desert, and "The Red Road to Shamballah" (1932-1933) about a hero with a Tibetan magic sword.