Mackinlay kantor, pulitzer prizewinning author, master storyteller, shows us how the south could have won the civil war. Andersonville by mackinlay kantor and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Based on the authors extensive research and nearly twentyfive years in the making, mackinlay kantors. Complete summary of mackinlay kantors andersonville. Start reading glory for me on your kindle in under a minute. Andersonville, a 700page novel by novelist mackinlay kantor, was published in 1955 and would win the pulitzer prize for fiction the next year. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the american civil war, and was awarded the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel, andersonville. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the american civil war, and was awarded the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel andersonville, about the confederate prisoner of war camp. Kantor was born and grew up in webster city, the second child and only son in his family. He began to write seriously at sixteen, became a newspaper reporter at seventeen, and published his first book at twentythree. Having visited the andersonville prisoner of war camp in south georgia years ago, i already knoew a little about the horrors the union soldiers suffered there. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the american civil war, was awarded the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel, andersonville, he wrote the novel gettysburg, set during the civil war.
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The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the pulitzer prize for fiction the following year. Born in webster city, ia, he was the son of effie mckinlay, the editor of a local daily newspaper, and he began his career as a journalist at the age of 17. Mackinlay kantor mackinlay kantor biography poem hunter. The first edition of the novel was published in 1955, and was written by mackinlay kantor. Kantor, mackinlay 1904 kantor, an american author, is best known for his historical novels, especially andersonville, for which he won a pulitzer prize. Benjamin mckinlay kantor, was an american journalist, novelist and screenwriter. Awarded the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1956, the book is a detailed and horrifying depiction of the prison, seen through the eyes its neighbors, of the officers running it, the old men.
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