Rex Ellingwood Beach

Rex Ellingwood Beach (1877-1949), American author of more than 30 novels, many adapted to the screen and of which he helped produce, wrote The Silver Horde (1909).

Rex Ellingwood Beach was born on 1 September 1877 in Atwood, Michigan, the son of Henry Walter Beach, fruit farmer, and Eva Eunice Canfield, a former school teacher. The Beach family moved south to the state of Florida when Rex was seven. The tall and slim Beach attended Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida from 1891 to 1896 focusing on science, athletics, and editing the school's literary magazine. Though he wouldn't finish his degree at the time, in 1927 he returned to the College and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Literature and his B.S. He was president of the Rollins Alumni Association from 1927 to 1940.