Monday, October 13, 2014
Conrad Richter won a Pulitzer for The Town, part of his trilogy on the American frontier
It is the birthday of writer Conrad Richter (1890) whose book The Town
(1950) won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1951. The book was part
of his The Awakening Land trilogy, a series that included The Sea of
Grass (1936) and The Light in the Forest (1953). The series tells the
stories of pioneers settling in the Ohio Valley and Pennsylvania after
the American Revolution. His portraits of frontier
America are regarded as among the most accurate ever published. All were adapted for film. Richter also founded a youth magazine and wrote for pulp magazines in the 1930s.
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