Laurence Brevoort BarrettoBARRETTO, Laurence Brevoort, in Who's Who in America; 1926 edition; p. 227; via archive.org (May 30, 1890 – December 30, 1971) was an American novelist and war correspondent. He was the author of several books, and served as assistant editor of Adventure from 1920 to 1924.
His father was Gerard Morris and his mother Laura Brevoort Barretto (a descendant of Hendrick Brevoort, the early New Yorker whose farm became Greenwich Village).
In 1917, Barretto enlisted "in [the] Ambulance Service" and served in France and Europe; in 1919, he was awarded the Croix de guerre 1914–1918.
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