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Browse author series lists, sequels, pseudonyms, synopses, book covers, ratings and awards. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the american civil war, and was awarded the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel, andersonville. Click to read more about god and my country by mackinlay kantor. Mackinlay kantor books biography and list of works author. Follow me, boys god and my country hardcover january 1, 1954 by mackinlay kantor author. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Kantor started writing seriously as a teenager when he worked as a reporter with his mother at the local newspaper in webster city. Quietly, the author has told of a man whose influence permeated a whole iowa town and who made scouting much more than an extra activity for himself and the boys who came to represent americas best. It is not widely understood that andersonville kantors opus magnum was the result of twentyfive years of research and literary labor. Mackinlay kantor was born on february 4, 1904 in webster city, iowa, usa as benjamin mackinlay kantor. According to his wishes, his ashes are buried at webster citys graceland cemetery. We will not declare on a us custom form that this is a gift. Lees mingled sorrow and relief, grants generosity toward his late opponent and the nearly starving confederate soldiers.
He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the american civil war, and was awarded the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel andersonville, about the confederate prisoner of war camp. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the american civil war, and was awarded the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel andersonville kantor was born in webster city, iowa, in 1904. How did the scouting organization respond to his request. Follow me, boys paperback january 1, 1966 by mackinlay kantor author visit amazon s mackinlay kantor page. The night of the huntergod and my countrynot as a strangerthe best cartoons from francethe young elizabeth readers digest condensed books, volume 2. Mackinlay kantor primary author only author division. He began to write seriously at sixteen, became a newspaper reporter at seventeen, and published his first book at twentythree.
Mar 26, 2020 mackinlay kantor, in full benjamin mckinlay kantor, born feb. Mackinlay kantor books biography and list of works. Chips quality to this deceptively simple story of lem siddons, scoutmaster. Mackinlay kantorpulitzer prizewinning author of andersonvillea novel of escape during the civil warbasis for the filmthe man from dakotathis is the story of three strange companions who attain what seldom has been won by any escaping prisoners. Follow me, boys god and my country by kantor, mackinlay. Born in webster city, ia, he was the son of effie mckinlay, the editor of a local daily newspaper, and he began his career as a journalist at the age of 17. Andersonville, a novel by mackinlay kantor, civil war book. Mackinlay kantor books list of books by author mackinlay. Mackinlay kantor is currently considered a single author. Mackinlay kantor february 4, 1904 october 11, 1977, born benjamin mckinlay kantor, was an american journalist, novelist and screenwriter.
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