Francis--he was related to Francis Scott Key.
the year 1940, December 21st 1940 and December 1940
He had moved to LA to work on movie scripts and met and fell in love with a writer/critic Sheilah Graham. He died in her apartment from a heart attack on December 21, 1940.
He got married in 1920
yes, he wrote short stories like Babylon Revisited and Winter Dreams.