Conrad Richter
Conrad Michael Richter (born October 13, 1890 in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania , † October 30, 1968 in Pottsville , Pennsylvania) was an American writer who won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award .
biography
After working as an editor for the local daily Patton Pennsylvania Courier , he was the private secretary of a wealthy entrepreneurial family before publishing a youth magazine. In 1928 he moved to Albuquerque because of the poor health of his wife .
Richter began his writing career in the mid- 1930s and published his debut novel The Sea of Grass (1936) in 1936, which was followed by Early Americana in the same year . The third volume of his Awakening Country - Trilogy ( The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), The Town (1950)) was awarded the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for fiction award.
He has also written numerous other novels such as Tacey Cromwell (1942), The Light in the Forest (1953) about the Esopus Wars , The Mountain on the Desert (1955) and The Lady (1957).
Elia Kazan filmed The Sea of Grass in 1947 under the title Endlos ist die prärie with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn , while Herschel Daugherty filmed Richter's book The Light in the Forest (German film title: The Heart of an Indian ) in 1958 . His novel The Waters of Kronos (1960) won the 1961 National Book Award in the prose (fiction) category. In the same year he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
After the novel A Country of Strangers (1966), The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories was published posthumously in 1978, a collection of short stories .
literature
- David R. Johnson: Conrad Richter: A Writer's Life (= Penn State Series in the History of the Book Series ). Penn State Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-271-03949-7 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
Web links
- Conrad Richter in nndb (English)
- A Conrad Richter Tribute Page
- Biography Ohio Reading Road Trip
- Conrad Richter And the Minsker Stories (The Mansker Chronicles)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Members: Conrad Richter. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 22, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Judge, Conrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richter, Conrad Michael (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pine Grove, Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 1968 |
| Place of death | Pottsville , Pennsylvania |