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John Taintor Foote (1881-1950)
American author, playwright and screenwriter. Born in Colorado. Although he trained as an artist and began a career in commercial art, he soon abandoned this for writing. He decided instead to start writing sporting stories, in particular those about racing. Many of his racing stories were published in the popular magazine The Saturday Evening Post, and were an immediate success. His most popular stories featured a colourful rogue called 'Blister Jones.' These Blister Jones stories were collected into a book to form his first novel. He went on to write more novels, although they largely featured fishing and dogs.
Foote moved to Hollywood in the 1930s and wrote a number of film scripts, including the 1949 film The Story of Seabiscuit. The famous Hitchcock film Notorious was also based on one of his stories.
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