Thomas Sigismund Stribling

Thomas Sigismund "TS" Stribling ( born March 4, 1881 in Clifton, Tennessee; † July 8th, 1965 in Florence, Alabama ) was an American writer, in 1933 for his novel The Store the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.

Biography

After schooling, he studied from 1898 to 1899 at the Southern Normal University at Huntingdon and then at the University of North Alabama. After completion of this study in 1903, he took up postgraduate studies in law at the Law School of the University of Alabama and graduated in 1905. He then worked as a lawyer.

His writing career began Stribling towards the end of the First World War and published in 1917 under the title Cruise of the Dry Dock his debut novel.

In the 1920s, followed by the end of the 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 scored greater attention to the so-called Vaiden trilogy consisting of the novels The Forge (1931 ), The Store (1932) and Unfinished Cathedral (1934 ) is. For the second volume of The Store, he received the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Last published his novels The Sound Wagon (1935 ) and thesis Bars of Flesh (1938). His memoirs, published posthumously in 1982 under the title Laughing Stock.