Curry was an American pulp fiction writer. He began writing crime and detective stories, but became a prolific western authors. Curry's work has appeared in Argosy, Black Mask, The Blue Book Magazine, Short Stories and several Thrilling Publications including Texas Rangers, Thrilling Adventures, Thrilling Ranch Stories and Thrilling Western.

In 1923 he worked as a crime reporter for William Randolph Hearst's newspaper the New York American. Some of his early crime stories were taken from this experience.

In 1939 he created his most well known character, The Rio Kid. This series had its own magazine devoted to it from 1939 through 1953.

From 1936, he is reported to have written 85 Jim Hatfield Texas Ranger westerns under the shared pseudonym of Jackson Cole.

He also wrote under the pseudonyms Bradford Scott (another house names for Texas Ranger Magazine) and John Benton (a house name for Thrilling Publications) and sometimes ghostwrite for others such as Romer Zane Grey, eldest son of Zane Grey.