Earl Conrad

Author Earl Conrad (b. 1912 - d. 1986); birth name Cohen, was born and educated in Auburn, New York. He penned at least twenty works of biography, history, and criticism, including books in collaboration. At least one that he 'ghost' wrote, was the biography of actor Errol Flynn, titled "Wicked, Wicked Ways". Earl Conrad has also penned these following works under his name, or with collaboration:

* Typoo
* The Da Vinci Machine
* The Premier
* The Trial of William Freeman
* Scottsboro Boy
* The Philology of Negro Dialect
* Horse Trader
* Gulf Stream North
* Harriet Tubman: Negro Soldier and Abolitionist (1942)

Earl Conrad and his wife lived in San Francisco at least during the 1971-1972 period. In the early 1980's, he and his wife, Anna Alyse Conrad, lived in Coronado, California. Some of his papers are in the local history collection of the Cayuga Community College in Auburn.