Harold Sherman
Harold Morrow Sherman (born July 13, 1898 in Traverse City , Michigan , † August 19, 1987 in Mountain View , Arkansas ) was an American writer.
Live and act
After briefly studying at the University of Michigan , Harold Sherman settled in Detroit to work for Ford Motor Company . He married Martha Bain in 1920, with whom he had two daughters Mary and Marcia. From 1921 he worked as a reporter for The Marion Chronicle newspaper in Indiana . In 1924 Sherman moved to New York City , where two of his plays were performed on Broadway . In New York, he also wrote teenage novels about sports and adventure, including the successful Tahara series . Sherman lived in Hollywood in the 1950s and early 1960s , where he worked as a screenwriter for television productions and feature films. He wrote the screenplay for the film The Adventures of Mark Twain , which was made in 1944 under the direction of Irving Rapper .
One of Sherman's favorite areas of interest was parapsychology . He wrote numerous books on subjects such as extrasensory perception , spiritual healing and questions about the afterlife . In 1937 and 1938 Sherman carried out sensational experiments on telepathy with Sir Hubert Wilkins while he was in the Arctic . Sherman also worked with writers from the New Spirit movement such as Claude Bristol . There are hundreds of books among his publications. His literary estate is kept in the archives of the University of Central Arkansas .
Works (selection)
Literature by and about Harold Sherman in the catalog of the German National Library
Non-fiction
- Your Key to Happiness (1935)
- Thoughts through Space (with Sir Hubert Wilkins) (1942)
- Your Key to Married Happiness (1944)
- Your Key to Youth Problems (1945)
- Your Key to Romance (1948)
- You Live After Death (1949)
- You Can Stop Drinking (1950)
- Know Your Own Mind (1953)
- Adventures in Thinking (1956)
- How To Turn Failure into Success (1958)
- How to Use the Power of Prayer (1958)
- How To Make ESP Work For You (1964)
- How to Solve Mysteries of Your Mind and Soul (1965)
- Wonder Healers of the Philippines (1967)
- Your Mysterious Powers of ESP (1969)
- How to Foresee and Control Your Future (1970)
- How to Take Yourself Apart and Put Yourself Back Together Again (1971)
- You Can Communicate with the Unseen World (1974)
- How to Know What to Believe (1976)
- How to Picture What You Want (1978)
- The Dead Are Alive! (1981)
- The power of mental training . Munich Verlag Peter Erd 1990, ISBN 3-8138-0176-4
Novels
- Cameron McBain, Backwoodsman (1927)
- Over the Line (1929)
- Ding Palmer, Air Detective (1930)
- The Land of Monsters (1931)
- It's a pass! (1931)
- Strike Him Out (1931)
- Let Freedom Ring! (1932)
- Interference (1932)
- Under the Basket (1932)
- Down the Ice (1932)
- Double Play (1932)
- The Tennis Terror (1932)
- Captain of the Eleven (1933)
- The Green Man (1946)
- All Aboard for the Moon (1947)
- The Green Man Returns (1947)
- Call of the Land (1948)
- This Way to Heaven (1948)
Individual evidence
- ^ Dates and biography after Brooks Blevins: Hill Folks. A History of Arkansas Ozarkers & Their Image . University of North Carolina Preyy 2002, pp. 219-247
- ↑ Tahara Among the African Tribes (1933), Tahara: Boy King of the Desert (1933), Tahara: Boy Mystic of India (1933), Tahara in the Land of the Yucatan (1933)
- ↑ Harold Sherman and Hubert Wilkins: Transmitter Human: Telepathy on the Test Stand . Düsseldorf 1974 ( ISBN 9783430183994 ), pp. 76-77
- ↑ Harold M. Sherman Collection of the University of Central Arkansas
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| SURNAME | Sherman, Harold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sherman, Harold Morrow (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Traverse City , Michigan |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 19, 1987 |
| Place of death | Mountain View , Arkansas |