Pennell, Elizabeth Horton

Joseph S. Pennell (1903-1963), novelist and short story writer, was born in junction City, Kansas and educated at the University of Kansas and Oxford. He was a newspaper reporter and teacher.

His first novel, The History of Rome Hanks and Kindred Matters (1944) was a book "based on the author’s recollections from his own Kansas family as well as his reading of more than 1,000 Civil War books and the 128 volumes of the Official Records, Pennell depicted in Rome Hanks the lives of ordinary soldiers with gripping realism."

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