Conrad Richter
Conrad Michael Richter ( born October 13, 1890 in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, † October 30, 1968 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania ) was an American writer, who is also the National Book Award not only won the Pulitzer Prize, but.
Biography
After working as an editor at the local daily newspaper Patton Pennsylvania Courier he was private secretary to a wealthy business family, before he edited a youth magazine. In 1928, he screwed up because of the failing health of his wife to Albuquerque.
Richter began his writing career until the mid- 1930s and published in 1936 his debut novel, The Sea of Grass ( 1936), which still followed in the same year Early Americana. The third volume of his Awakening Land Trilogy ( The Trees (1940 ), The Fields (1946 ), The Town (1950 )) was awarded the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
In addition, he wrote numerous other novels as Tacey Cromwell (1942 ), The Light in the Forest (1953 ) on the Esopus Wars, The Mountain on the Desert (1955) and The Lady (1957).
Elia Kazan filmed The Sea of Grass in 1947 under the title is an endless prairie with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, while Herschel Daugherty 1958 Judge book The Light in the Forest ( German Movie Title: The Heart of an Indian ) filmed. His novel The Waters of Kronos (1960 ) was awarded the 1961 National Book Award in the category of prose ( fiction ).
Based on the novel A Country of Strangers (1966 ) appeared with The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories 1978 posthumous collection of short stories.
External links and sources
- Conrad Richter in the Notable Names Database (English)
- David R. Johnson: Conrad Richter: A Writer 's Life, ISBN 0271027886, (2008)
- A Conrad Richter Tribute Page
- Biography Ohio Reading Road Trip
- Conrad Richter And the Minsk Stories (The Mansker Chronicles )
- Author
- Literature ( 20th century)
- Literature ( English )
- Novel, epic
- Pulitzer Prize winner
- Journalist
- Americans
- Born in 1890
- Died in 1968
- Man