Thomas Sigismund Stribling
Thomas Sigismund "TS" Stribling (born March 4, 1881 in Clifton , Tennessee , † July 8, 1965 in Florence , Alabama ) was an American writer who received the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1933 for his novel The Store .
biography
After attending school, he studied from 1898 to 1899 at Southern Normal University in Huntingdon and then at the University of North Alabama . After completing this degree in 1903, he took a postgraduate study of law at the Law School of the University of Alabama and graduated in 1905 from. He then worked as a lawyer .
Stribling began his writing career towards the end of the First World War and published his debut novel in 1917 under the title Cruise of the Dry Dock .
In the 1920s followed by the late 1930s numerous other novels such as Birthright (1922), East is East (1922), Fombombo (1923), Red Sand (1924), Teeftallow (1926), Bright Metal (1928), Strange Moon (1929), Clues of the Caribees (1929) and Backwater (1930).
He achieved greater attention with the so-called Vaiden trilogy , which consists of the novels The Forge (1931), The Store (1932) and Unfinished Cathedral (1934). For the second volume, The Store , he received the Pulitzer Prize for Novels in 1933 .
Most recently his novels The Soundwagon (1935) and These Bars of Flesh (1938) appeared. His memoir was only published posthumously in 1982 under the title Laughing Stock .
Web links
- Thomas Sigismund Stribling in nndb (English)
- Biography (The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture)
- Biography (Alabama's Literary Landscape) ( Memento from July 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Thomas Sigismund Stribling (1881-1965), Papers, 1907-1982 (Tennessee State Library and Archives) (PDF; 222 kB)
Individual evidence
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SURNAME | Stribling, Thomas Sigismund |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stribling, TS |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 4, 1881 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Clifton , Tennessee |
DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1965 |
Place of death | Florence , Alabama |