May 12, 1905 [Jamestown, Arkansas]–December 4, 1949 [Los Angeles]
Carlyle was born in Arkansas and attended Westminster College in Fulton, Montana. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1920’s where he married Elizabeth Ann Reverman. The couple travelled extensively throughout the world. Following his visit to India, Carlyle was the first to translate The Psalms of Krishna (1933) into English. Two mythopoetic texts, The Oracles and Demon Greed followed in 1933 and 1934 respectively. During World War II, Carlyle headed the Los Angeles division of the U.S. Treasury Department’s War Bond selling campaign. In 1937, he represented the United States as delegate to the International Congress of Philosophy before returning to Los Angeles to establish a business of appraising antiques and works of art. A political tract, The Earth Belongs to the Living, appeared in 1936.
