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MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977), [1] born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, [1] was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. 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 .
Oct 4, 2016 · My grandfather MacKinlay Kantor wrote innumerable works of fiction, including 31 novels, one of which, Andersonville, won the Pulitzer Prize. Another novel, Glory for Me, was the basis for the movie The Best Years of Our Lives , which took seven Oscars, became the highest-grossing film since Gone with the Wind, and is often ranked among the greatest American movies of all time.
- Tom Shroder
Oct 7, 2024 · MacKinlay Kantor (born Feb. 4, 1904, Webster City, Iowa, U.S.—died Oct. 11, 1977, Sarasota, Fla.) was an American author and newspaperman whose more than 30 novels and numerous popular short stories include the highly acclaimed Andersonville (1955; filmed for television 1996), a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the American Civil War.
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Mackinlay Kantor’s short story, “A Man Who Had No Eyes,” uses third person point of view to tell the story.The narrator begins the story on a beautiful spring morning. Mr. Parsons, a wealthy ...
Kantor, MacKinlay 1904– Kantor, an American author, is best known for his historical novels, especially Andersonville , for which he won a Pulitzer Prize. (See also Contemporary Authors , Vols ...
Andersonville is the result of 25 years of research by author MacKinlay Kantor. By investigating diaries, letters, and eye witness accounts written down after the American Civil War, MacKinlay constructs a fictional story of the horrors of the Andersonville Fortress through the multiple viewpoints of the guards, prisoners, and civilians who actually lived through it.
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Prominent Civil War scholars such as Bruce Catton and Henry Steele Commager praised Kantor's book as the greatest Civil War novel ever written. The book spawned several made-for-television films, including the 1970 The Andersonville Trial, which portrays the war crimes trials of the camp's commanders, including the head official, Wirz, who was the only Civil War soldier executed for war crimes .
