Delos Wheeler Lovelace was an American novelist who authored the original novelization of the film King Kong (1933) published in 1932 by Grosset & Dunlap, slightly before the film was released. The story was also serialized in 2 parts in February and March 1933 by Walter Ripperger for Mystery magazine. Lovelace was a reporter for the New York Daily News and New York Sun in the 1920s.