MacKinlay Cantor

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MacKinlay Cantor

MacKinlay Kantor (born February 4, 1904 in Webster City , Iowa , † October 11, 1977 in Sarasota , Florida ) was an American writer who mainly wrote novels .

Life

He wrote his first poetry at the age of 17. Shortly afterwards, at 18, he won his first writing competition. In 1928 he finished his first novel called Diversey . The contemporary plot concerned organized crime in Chicago in the early 1900s .

In the 1930s, Kantor first wrote a novel about the American Civil War : Long Remember . Kantor's reason for this real novel can be found in his childhood: at a young age he spoke to some veterans of this war and from then on was an enthusiastic supporter of such stories. Long Remember is one of the first novels to be characterized by realism.

His heroic poem Glory for Me , written in 1945 , formed the basis of the 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives, which won seven Academy Awards . 1955 was the year he published the novel Andersonville . The plot is based on the notorious POW camp Andersonville (actually Camp Sumter ) of the Confederate in the American Civil War. In 1956, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Best Novel for his harrowing work .

During his life, Kantor wrote well over 30 novels, most of which reflect the Civil War. This includes the Gettysburg work and If the South Had Won the Civil War . He wrote his last novel Valley Forge in 1975. Despite his great penchant for historical fiction, he tried in 1965 as a co-author with Air Force General Curtis E. LeMay on his autobiography Mission with LeMay .

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Novels

  • Diversey , 1928
  • El Goes South , 1930
  • The Jaybird , 1932
  • Long Remember , 1934
  • The Voice of Bugle Ann , 1935
  • Arouse and Beware , 1936
  • The Romance of Rosy Ridge , 1937
  • The Noise of Their Wings , 1938
  • Here Lies Holly Springs , 1938
  • Valedictory , 1939
  • Cuba Libre , 1940
  • Gentle Annie , 1942
  • Happy Land , 1943
  • Glory for Me , 1945
  • Midnight Lace , 1948
  • The Good Family , 1949
  • Wicked Water , 1949
  • One Wild Oat , 1950
  • Signal Thirty-Two , 1950 (German Signal 32nd detective novel , Heyne, Munich 1962)
  • Don't Touch Me , 1951
  • Warwhoop: Two Short Novels of the Frontier , 1952
  • The Daughter of Bugle Ann , 1953
  • God and My Country , 1954
  • Andersonville , 1955 (German Andersonville , Cotta, Stuttgart 1957)
  • Frontier: Tales of the American Adventure , 1959
  • The Unseen Witness , 1959
  • Spirit Lake , 1961
  • If the South Had Won the Civil War (1961; first published in Look magazine in 1960 )
  • Beauty Beast , 1968 (German beautiful beast , Droemer / Knaur, Munich and Zurich 1970; last published there in 1976, ISBN 3-426-00293-0 )
  • I Love You, Irene , 1973
  • The Children Sing , 1974
  • Valley Forge , 1975

Edited volumes with stories and essays

  • Turkey in the Straw. A Book of American Ballads and Primitive Verse , 1935
  • Author's Choice , 944
  • Silent Grow the Guns, and Other Tales of the American Civil War , 1958
  • It's About Crime , 1960
  • The Gun-Toter, and Other Stories of the Missouri Hills , 1963
  • Story Teller , 1967
  • American Short Stories , edited by Karl Botzenmayer, content: I will do my best, Gun Crazy, The Comforter Returneth, Verlag Ferdinand Schoeningh, 1954

Books for children and young readers

  • Angleworms on Toast , 1942
  • Lee and Grant at Appomattox , 1950
  • Gettysburg , 1952
  • The Work of Saint Francis , 1958

Nonfiction and autobiography

  • But look, the morn. The Story of a Childhood , 1951
  • Lobo , 1958
  • together with Curtis LeMay : Mission with LeMay. My Story , 1965
  • The Day I Met a Lion , 1968
  • Missouri Bittersweet , 1969
  • Hamilton County , 1970

Film adaptations

Literary template

  • 1936: A Scream in the Night (The Voice of Bugle Ann)
  • 1943: Happy Land
  • 1944: Gentle Annie
  • 1945: The Best Years of Our Lives (The best Years of our Lives)
  • 1953: Hot West (Outlaw Territory)
  • 1966: Forty Daredevils (Follow Me, Boys!)

script

In 1958, Kantor Starring in the film marsh underfoot ( Wind Across the Everglades ).

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personal data
SURNAME Cantor, MacKinlay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Webster City , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1977
Place of death Sarasota , Florida