Reginald Earle Looker (1895-1976) was born in Washington, D.C., to Henry Brigham Looker and Katherine Chamberlain (Earle) Looker on February 11, 1895. During World War I, Looker served in Europe as an ambulance driver for the American Ambulance Corps and a freelance war correspondent for The Evening Post. He also served in the United States Army overseas from 1918-1919. Looker married Edith Applegate in December 1917 and had two daughters, Edith Beaumont Looker and Katherine "Karen" Earle Looker. After World War I, he worked as an advertising executive, magazine editor, and public relations consultant. As a childhood playmate of President Theodore Roosevelt's children, Looker used his connections to launch a public relations campaign that would help get Franklin D. Roosevelt elected as President. He was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech writer until 1940. He wrote several biographies about Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Roosevelt family, including The White House Gang (1928), Colonel Roosevelt, Private Citizen (1932), This Man Roosevelt (1932), and The American Way (1933). He also collaborated with Roosevelt on his work about the Great Depression, Looking Forward (1933). Looker again served in the United States Army from 1940-1945 and retired as a colonel. He completed his service as Director of Morale Service of the Pacific Ocean Areas from 1944-1945. It was in the role that Looker met his second wife, Antonina Hansell, who worked as a Red Cross volunteer at a naval hospital in Hawaii. Looker divorced his first wife in 1946 and married Antonina in 1947. Looker and Antonina moved to Antonina's mother's home "Hillhouse", in Lakemont, Georgia, and spent the rest of their years collaborating as fiction writers. Their joint novel Revolt (1967), was a work of historical fiction about what would have happened if the South had won the Civil War. Looker and Antonina continued to write together until Looker's death from lung cancer.