ABSTRACT
Marion Hargrove, Jr., was born in Mount Olive, North Carolina, on October 13, 1919, to Emma and Marion Lawton Hargrove. Growing up in Charlotte, he attended the local high school, where he became feature writer and editor of the school paper. He was one-half point short of credits for graduation in 1938 when he left. After a series of odd jobs, he became feature editor for the Charlotte News, to which he contributed "In the Army Now" after he was drafted in July 1941. Hargrove was still a "semiskilled cook" at Fort Bragg when the United States entered World War II. But, in February 1942, playwright Maxwell Anderson arrived at the post to research material for The Eve of St. Mark. The Army transferred Hargrove to the magazine Yank in New York City, where he served as a feature editor, and promoted him to corporal.
