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- George Elwood Jenks was born on 18 February 1881 in Minnesota, USA. George Elwood was a writer, known for The Desperate Game (1925), The Cub Reporter (1922) and A Woman of Pleasure (1919). George Elwood died on 30 December 1946 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Composer, songwriter ("At Dawning"), author and pianist, educated at USC with a music degree and at the University of Denver with an honorary Ph.D. He studied music with Leo Oehlmer, Emil Paur, W. K. Steiver, and Luigi von Kunits. He was a music critic for the Pittsburgh Dispatch, and researched Indian music and customs, on which he lectured between 1909 and 1923. He was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Joining ASCAP in 1924, he collaborated musically with Nelle Richmond Eberhart. His song compositions also include "From the Land of the Sky Blue Water" and "The Far Horizon", and the song cycles "Four American Indian Songs", "Sayonara", "Three Songs to Odysseus", "White Enchantment", and "The Morning of the Year".