found: The ape of heaven, c1936:t.p. (Royal Dixon)
found: OCLC database, Nov. 10, 1997(hdg.: Dixon, Royal, 1885-1962; usage: Royal Dixon)
found: Burke, W.J. Amer. authors and books, 1962(Dixon, Royal (May 25, 1885- ); b. Huntsville, Tex.; naturalist, lecturer, novelist)
found: Wikipedia, April 15, 2021(Royal Dixon; Royal Dixon (25 March 1885? - 4 June 1962) was an American author, animal rights activist and a member of the Americanization movement; he was, along with Diana Belais (1858-1944), a founder of the "First Church for Animal Rights" in 1921; Dixon was born in Huntsville, Texas; his earliest career was as a child actor and dancer trained by Adele Fox; his last theatre appearance was in 1903 as an actor with the Iroquois theater in Chicago; he became a curator at the department of botany at the Field Museum of Chicago from 1905 to 1910, then a staff writer at the Houston Chronicle; he also made special contributions to the newspapers of New York, where he lectured for the Board of Education and founded a school for creative writing; his interest and attention were later directed to immigration, as a director of publicity of the Commission of Immigrants in America, and as managing editor of The Immigrants in America Review; in 1921, Dixon founded, along with Diana Belais, Dr. S.A. Schneidmann and several others, the First Church for Animal Rights in Manhattan; Dixon was buried in Houston's Glenwood Cemetery)
