Lloyd C. Douglas
Lloyd Cassel Douglas ( born August 27, 1877 in Columbia City, Whitley County, † February 13, 1951; born Doya C. Douglas ) was an American priest and author. He was one of the most famous American writers of his time, although he published his first novel when they are 50 years of age. He is the author of the novel of the same name Hollywood epic film The Robe.
Life
Douglas was born in Columbia City, Indiana, and spent his childhood in Monroeville, Indiana, Wilmot, Indiana and Florence, Kentucky, where his father, Alexander Jackson Douglas, pastor of the Hopeful Lutheran Church was. According to the Census of 1910 Douglas was a Lutheran pastor. He was married to Bosie Douglas L.. They had two children out of Douglas. The family employed as a cook Ms. Josephine Somach.
After he had received his diploma in 1903 at Wittenberg College (now Wittenberg University) in Springfield, Ohio, he worked for the Lutheran church. He initially served as a pastor in North Manchester, Indiana, Lancaster, Ohio and Washington, DC. From 1911 to 1915 he was director of the Theological Faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. The next six years he was pastor of the First Congregational Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan. From there he moved to Akron, Ohio, where until 1926 he held this post from 1920, then to Los Angeles in California and eventually he worked at the St. James United Church in Montreal, Quebec, from whose pulpit he said goodbye to. Write
Work
His work has a moral, didactic and religious orientation. His first novel, Magnificent Obsession, published in 1929, was an unexpected runaway hit. Critics saw Douglas in the succession of great religious novels of earlier times, such as Ben Hur and Quo Vadis. The novel was made into a film in 1935 's Magnificent Obsession. Was published in 1954 with the wonderful power a remake.
Douglas then wrote the novels Forgive Us Our Trespasses; Precious Jeopardy; Greenlight; White banner; Disputed Passage; Invitation To Live; Doctor Hudson 's Secret Journal; The Robe and The Big Fisherman. The Robe ( in German: The robe of the Redeemer ), more than two million copies sold ( the new editions do not count ). Douglas sold the film rights. The movie The Robe with Richard Burton came only in 1953 after Douglas 's death in the cinemas. Also, " The Big Fisherman " was filmed in 1959 and shows Howard Keel in one of his few film roles where he does not sing, as Peter. His last book was the autobiography "Time To Remember" which describes his life from childhood to his training for the priesthood.
He died before he could write the planned second volume. This task was however brought to an end by the book " The Shape of Sunday" of his daughters Virginia Douglas Dawson and Betty Douglas Wilson. Douglas was buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Works (selection)
- The Robe (1942 )
- Magnificent Obsession (1929 )
- The Big Fisherman ( 1949)
- White Banners
- Green Light ( 1935)
- Disputed Passage (1939 )