Morton Thompson
Morton Thompson was an American writer of newspaper journalism, novels and film screenplays.
Career
Amongst his works were a collection of journalistic memoirs called Joe, the Wounded Tennis Player, and the novels Not as a Stranger and The Cry and the Covenant.He had a column in the Hollywood Citizen-News which he signed "N.N.W.," explaining that the initials came from a Shakespeare line, "I am but mad when the wind is North North West."