- Shot and killed his wife and then himself just hours after the couple learned she had a malignant brain tumor.
- Prior to his writing career, Gilpatric worked in the advertising business and later ran a flying school in Los Angeles.
- Lived on the French Riviera through much of the 1920s and 30s, returning to America at the outbreak of the Second World War.
- Served as a captain with the American Expeditionary Force during the First World War.
- Remembered for his Glencannon stories that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post for many years.
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