Thomas Sigismund Stribling

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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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Birthright (Google Books)
  2. ^ The Forge (Google Books)
  3. Unfinished Cathedral (Google Books)