Henry Clay Branson

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Henry Clay Branson (born December 30, 1904 in Battle Creek , Calhoun County , Michigan , † November 12, 1981 in Ann Arbor , Washtenaw County , Michigan) was an American writer and librarian.

Life

Between 1924 and 1926, Branson studied at Princeton University . He then went to Paris for three years and lived there in the "footsteps" of Philo Vance , a fictional protagonist of the writer SS Van Dine . When Branson returned to the United States in 1929 , he settled in Detroit and attended the University of Michigan .

He later went to Ann Arbor, Michigan and married there; he had three daughters.

Michigan State University's library in East Lansing manages his literary estate .

reception

With his novel "Salisbury Plain", Branson skilfully thematized the civil war between 1861 and 1865 and reignited controversial discussions about it.

With John Bent , Branson invented a protagonist who plays a leading role in all of his crime novels .

Works (selection)

  • Salisbury Plain. A novel . Gollancz, London 1966.
  • John Bent cycle
    • I'll eat you last . Bodley Head Publ., London 1941.
    • The pricking thumb . Bodley Head Publ., London 1942.
    • The case of the giant killer . New edition Lane Books, London 1951.
    • Fearful passage . 2nd edition Lane Books, London 1950.
    • Last year's blood . New edition Lane Books, London 1950.
    • The leaden bubble . Lane Books, London 1949.
    • Beggar's choice . Lane Books, London 1953.

literature

  • Armin Arnold u. a. (Ed.): Reclams Kriminalromanführer . Reclam, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-15-010278-2 , p. 84.
  • Otto Penzler: Detectionary. A biographical dictionary of leading characters in detrective and mystery fiction . Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY 1977, ISBN 0-87951-041-2 .
  • The Ann Arbor News. Obituary Henry C. Branson. Michigan Advance Publications, Inc., November 13, 1981

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry Clay Branson , U.S. Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed October 13, 2018
  2. ↑ The Michigan alumnus. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1982, p. 30.
personal data
SURNAME Branson, Henry Clay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Battle Creek , Calhoun County , Michigan
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1981
Place of death Ann Arbor , Washtenaw County , Michigan