Kantor, MacKinlay, 1904-1977

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Novelist from Iowa.

From the description of Letters, 1934-1973. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233121203

Kantor was born in Webster City, Iowa. His first of more than thirty novels, Diversey, was about Chicago gangsters. Many of the later novels were based on the Civil War, including Andersonville, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1956.

From the description of MacKinlay Kantor manuscripts, 1927-1932. (State Historical Society of Iowa, Library). WorldCat record id: 435842238

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From the description of Papers of MacKinlay Kantor, 1950-1958. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233110550 From the description of Papers of MacKinlay Kantor, 1885-1977 (bulk 1920-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71066291

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1904, Feb. 4 Born, Webster City, Iowa 1921 1924 Reporter and assistant editor, Webster City Daily News, Webster City, Iowa 1925 Moved to Chicago, Ill.; free-lance writer 1926 Married Irene Layne (died 1982) 1926 1927 Reporter, Republican, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 1928 Published first novel, Diversey (New York: Coward McCann. 345 pp.) 1930 Published El Goes South (New York: Coward McCann. 297 pp.) 1930 1931 Columnist, Des Moines Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa 1932 Published The Jaybird (New York: Coward McCann. 293 pp.) 1934 Published Long Remember (New York: Coward McCann. 411 pp.) Screenwriter, Paramount Productions, Hollywood, Calif. 1935 Published The Voice of Bugle Ann (New York: Coward McCann. 128 pp.) Published Turkey in the Straw: A Book of American Ballads and Primitive Verse (New York: Coward McCann. 90 pp.) 1936 Published Arouse and Beware (New York: Coward McCann. 332 pp.) Screenwriter, Paramount Productions, Hollywood, Calif. 1937 Published The Romance of Rosy Ridge (New York: Coward McCann. 96 pp.) 1938 Published The Noise of Their Wings (New York: Coward McCann. 240 pp.) Published Here Lies Holly Springs (New York: Pynson Printers. 37 pp.) 1939 Published The Valedictory (New York: Coward McCann. 92 pp.) 1940 Published Cuba Libra: A Story (New York: Coward McCann. 136 pp.) 1942 Published Gentle Annie: A Western Novel (New York: Coward McCann. 249 pp.) Published Angleworms on Toast (New York: Coward McCann. 29 pp.) Screenwriter, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hollywood, Calif. 1943 Published Happy Land (New York: Coward McCann. 92 pp.) Screenwriter, Twentieth Century Fox, Hollywood, Calif. 1943 1945 War correspondent for various magazines 1944 Published Author's Choice (New York: Coward McCann. 497 pp.) Screenwriter, Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood, Calif. 1945 Special assignment with the air force to write official report on the air war in World War II Published Glory for Me, a novel in verse used for the Academy Award-winning motion picture film, Best Years of Our Lives (New York: Coward McCann. 268 pp.) 1947 Published But Look, the Morn; The Story of A Childhood (New York: Coward McCann. 308 pp.) 1948 Published Midnight Lace (New York: Random House. 309 pp.) Published Wicked Water: An American Primitive (New York: Random House. 216 pp.) 1949 Published The Good Family (New York: Coward McCann. 150 pp.) 1950 War correspondent in Korea, True Magazine, flying for a month on combat missions with the 325th Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group Published One Wild Oat (New York: Fawcett. 156 pp.) Published Signal Thirty-Two (New York: Random House. 370 pp.) Published Lee and Grant at Appomattox (New York: Random House. 175 pp.) 1951 Published Don't Touch Me (New York: Random House. 243 pp.) 1951 1953 Consultant, United States Air Force, studying personnel, equipment, and training operations at Mediterranean bases 1952 Published Warwhoop: Two Short Novels of the Frontier (New York: Random House. 246 pp.) Published Gettysburg (New York: Random House. 189 pp.) 1953 Published The Daughter of Bugle Ann (New York: Random House. 122 pp.) 1954 Published God and My Country (Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing. 128 pp.) 1955 Published Andersonville (Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing. 767 pp.); received Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1957 Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom for services to the air force Published Lobo (Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing. 110 pp.) 1958 Published The Work of Saint Francis (Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing. 107 pp.) Published Silent Grow the Guns and Other Tales of the American Civil War (New York: New American Library. 158 pp.) 1959 Published short story collection, Frontier; Tales of the American Adventure (New York: New American Library. 160 pp.) 1960 Published short story collection, It's About Crime (New York: New American Library. 157 pp.) 1961 Published Spirit Lake (Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing. 957 pp.) Published If The South Had Won the Civil War (New York: Bantam. 112 pp.) 1963 Published The Gun-Toter and Other Stories of the Missouri Hills (New York: New American Library. 160 pp.) 1965 Published, with Curtis E. LeMay, Mission with LeMay: My Story (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 581 pp.) 1967 Published Story Teller (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 462 pp.) 1968 Published Beauty Beast (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 382 pp.) Published The Day I Met A Lion (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 341 pp.) 1969 Published Missouri Bittersweet (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 342 pp.) 1970 Published, with Tim Kantor, Hamilton County (New York: Macmillan. 288 pp.) 1972 Published I Love You, Irene (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 347 pp.) 1973 Published The Children Sing (New York: Hawthorn. 213 pp.) 1975 Published Valley Forge (New York: M. Evans and Lippincott. 339 pp.) 1977, Oct. 11 Died, Sarasota, Fla. From the guide to the MacKinlay Kantor Papers, 1885-1977, (bulk 1920-1970), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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