Between 1924 and 1934 Page worked for the
Cincinnati Post, the
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, the
New York Times, the
New York Herald Tribune, and the
New York World-Telegram. Page spent 12 years as a newspaperman, doing many dirty jobs and seeing many corpses in the morgues. When he did start writing, it was western stories, a subject he knew nothing about, but they sold. Finally the editor who bought the stories suggested he write about something he knew, like gangsters. One of Page's earliest stories was a mystery story, "The Devil Muscles In", written for the November 1930 issue of
Detective-Dragnet Magazine, as by N. Wooten Page. He also contributed to other pulp series, including
The Black Bat and
The Phantom Detective, and supplied scripts for the radio programs based on the characters he wrote,
science fiction and two early
sword and sorcery fantasy novels under forms of his real name, Norvel Page and Norvell W. Page. His 1940
Unknown novel
But Without Horns is considered an early classic explication of the superman theme. Page was elected as president of the American Fiction Guild, serving the year from November 1934 through October 1935. In 1943 he began working for the US government, including the
Atomic Energy Commission, the President's Scientific Research Board, the President's Ten Year Health Program, the two
Hoover Commissions, and the President's Materials Policy Commission. He died of a heart attack on August 14, 1961. ==Bibliography==