Lawrence Schoonover

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Lawrence Lovell Schoonover (born March 6, 1906 in Anamosa , Iowa ; died January 8, 1980 in Mineola , New York ) was an American writer, best known for his historical novels.

Life

Schoonover was the son of Lawrence Schoonover and Grace, nee Lovell. He graduated from the Shattuck School and studied at the University of Wisconsin from 1923 to 1926 . First he worked as a reporter for Collier’s until 1928 and then in advertising, until 1931 at Barton, Durstine & Osborn , then until 1941 as a manager at Underwood & Underwood , from 1943 to 1945 as a senior editor at Gotham Advertising and in 1947 at Batten , Barton, Durstine & Osborn . From 1947 he was a freelance writer.

In 1948 Schoonover's first novel, The Burnished Blade , was published, a historical tale from the time of Joan of Arc . His work includes a number of biographical novels about historical personalities, such as The Spider King about the life of the French King Louis XI or The Chancellor about the chancellor and founder of the French lottery Antoine Duprat . In 1962 Schoonover published the science fiction novel Central Passage (German Der Rote Regen ), in which the land bridge between North and South America is destroyed in a nuclear war , which results in global climate change and an impending new ice age . The ionizing radiation creates a mutated superhuman race who will inherit humanity. Reclam's science fiction guide judged: "A novel that repeats long-known clichés, in which the plot structure does not always follow logic and which probably owes its creation mainly to the hope of riding the wave of catastrophe novels that was successful at the time."

In 1938 he married Gertrude Bonn and had four children with her. In 1980, Schoonover died at the age of 73.

bibliography

  • The Burnished Blade (1948)
  • The Gentle Infidel (1950)
  • The Golden Exile (1951)
  • The Quick Brown Fox (1952)
  • The Spider King (1954)
  • The Queen's Cross (1955)
  • The Revolutionary (1958)
  • The Prisoner of Tordesillas (1959)
  • The Chancellor (1961)
  • Central Passage (1962)
    • German: The red rain: utopian-technical novel. Translated by Heinz Bingenheimer. Goldmann's science fiction Z 35, 1964.
  • Key of Gold (1968)
  • To Love a Queen (1973)

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SURNAME Schoonover, Lawrence
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoonover, Lawrence Lovell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Anamosa , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1980
Place of death Mineola , New York