John Franklin Bard

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John Franklin Bardin (born November 30, 1916 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † July 9, 1981 in New York City , New York ) was an American writer. He became known through crime novels with a psychological background, which he wrote mainly in the 1940s and 1950s.

Life

Bardin grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, a coal trader, died in his childhood. The older sister also died of blood poisoning a year before the father. His mother, an office worker, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia , which had a formative influence on John Franklin Bardin's early novels. He was married twice and had two children from his first marriage.

After graduating from Walnut Hills High School in his hometown, Bardin began studying engineering at the University of Cincinnati . However, due to financial difficulties, he broke off his studies in the first year and took on various auxiliary jobs.

Soon after, Bardin went to New York City, where he got a permanent job from 1944 at the advertising agency Edwin Bird Wilson Inc., in which he eventually rose to vice president. In 1963 he left the agency. Since 1961, Bardin has been teaching "creative writing" at the New School for Social Research . He held this teaching position until 1966. He then worked in New York as an editor for various newspapers, including magazines of the United Negro College Fund and the United Jewish Appeal for New York.

Between 1972 and 1974, Bardin went to Chicago , where he was the editor-in-chief of Today's Health magazine for the American Medical Association . In 1974 he moved back to New York, where he died at Beth Israel Medical Center in 1981 .

Works

  • Under your own name:
    • The Deadly Percheron. (1946) German edition: Das Teufelsrad. Edition Sven Bergh, 1979. Translator Werner Peterich .
    • The Last of Philip Banter. (1947) German edition: Confession in installments. Edition Sven Bergh, 1980. Translator Werner Peterich.
    • Devil Take the Blue-tail Fly. (1948) German edition: The bear pit. Edition Sven Bergh, 1981. Translator Werner Peterich.
    • The Burning Glass. (1950)
    • Christmas Comes but Once a Year. (1954)
    • Purloining Tiny. (1978)
  • Under the pseudonym Gregory Tree:
    • The Case Against Myself. (1950)
    • The Case Against Butterfly. (1951)
    • So Young to Die. (1952)
  • Under the pseudonym Douglas Ashe:
    • A shroud for grandmama. (1951); renamed The Longstreet Legacy. (1970)

Awards

In 1976 John Franklin Bardin received the Swedish Crime Award .

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personal data
SURNAME Bard, John Franklin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tree, Gregory (pen name); Ashe, Douglas (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1981
Place of death New York City , New York