MacKinlay Kantor Bibliography
MacKinlay
Kantor was born in Webster City on February 4, 1904. He won the
Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for his novel Andersonville. His book, Glory for Me was made into the film
"The Best Years of Our Lives".
The
Disney
film
"Follow Me, Boys"
was loosely based on his novel, God
and My Country. He died of a heart attack on October 11, 1977 at
his home in Sarasota, Florida. If anyone has any other
biographical information,
or can correct and update this bibliography, please contact me at the
email address at the bottom of this page.
Here is a great article (reprinted from The Armchair
Detective, Spring 1997) by John Apostolou that centers on
MacKinlay Kantor’s crime fiction: MacKINLAY
KANTOR AND THE POLICE NOVEL
Novels:
Diversey (1928)
El Goes South (1930)
The Jaybird (1932)
Long Remember (1934)
The Voice of Bugle Ann (1935)
Arouse and Beware (1936)
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1937)
The Noise of Their Wings (1938)
Here Lies Holly Springs (1938)
Valedictory (1939)
Cuba Libre (1940)
Gentle Annie (1942)
Happy Land (1943)
Glory for Me (1945)
Midnight Lace (1948)
The Good Family (1949)
Wicked Water (1949)
One Wild Oat (1950)
Signal Thirty-Two (1950)
Don't Touch Me (1951)
Warwhoop: Two Short Novels of
the Frontier (1952)
The Daughter of Bugle Ann (1953)
God and My Country (1954)
Andersonville (1955)
Frontier: Tales of the American
Adventure (1959)
The Unseen Witness (1959)
Spirit Lake (1961)
If the South Had Won the Civil
War (1961)
Beauty Beast (1968)
I Love You, Irene (1973)
The Children Sing (1974)
Valley Forge (1975)
Collections:
Turkey in the Straw: A
Book of American Ballads and Primitive Verse (1935)
Author's Choice (1944)
Silent Grow the Guns, and
Other Tales of the American Civil War (1958)
It's About Crime (1960)
The Gun-Toter, and Other
Stories of the Missouri Hills (1963)
Story Teller (1967)
Juvenile:
Angleworms on Toast
(Illustrated by Kurt Wiese) (1942)
Lee and Grant at Appomattox
(Illustrated by Donald McKay) (1950)
Gettysburg (Illustrated by
Donald McKay) (1952)
The Work of Saint Francis
(Illustrated by Johannes Troyer) (1958)
Non
Fiction:
But Look, the Morn:
The Story of a Childhood (memoir) (1951)
Lobo (1958)
Mission with LeMay: My Story,
by Curtis LeMay with MacKinlay Kantor (1965)
The Day I Met a Lion (1968)
Missouri Bittersweet (1969)
Hamilton County (1970)
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