- Playwright, screenwriter and author. Graduate from the University of Chicago, Guggenheim Fellow (1937-38), Sidney Howard Memorial Award winner and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
- Wrote several books on anthropology, notably the widely read bestsellers "African Genesis" and "The Territorial Imperative", which dealt with the origins of human behavior.
- Thornton Wilder was his mentor.
- Led tours of the Mayan exhibition at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair.
- Played piano in an Al Capone speakeasy.
- Called by famed biologist E. O. Wilson: "The lyric poet of evolution".
- Grandfather of Jon Ardrey.
- Lived in Rome, Italy, for 17 years, then spent his final two years in Cape Town, South Africa.
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