Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968) was an American novelist whose lyrical work focuses on life along the American frontier. Two of his novels won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1961 National Book Award for Fiction.
Born in Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Conrad Richter was the son, grandson, nephew, and great-nephew of Lutheran clergy-men. He grew up in several central Pennsylvania towns, where ...
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Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968) was an American novelist whose lyrical work focuses on life along the American frontier. Two of his novels won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1961 National Book Award for Fiction.
Born in Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Conrad Richter was the son, grandson, nephew, and great-nephew of Lutheran clergy-men. He grew up in several central Pennsylvania towns, where he came into contact with any number of pioneer descendants. Their stories became the basis of much of Richter's work. He took a job as editor of a local weekly newspaper, the Patton Pennsylvania Courier, when he was nineteen. In 1911 he moved to Cleveland, Ohio and became the private secretary to a wealthy manufacturing family. He subsequently founded a juvenile magazine before moving to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for his wife's health, in 1928.
In the early '30s, he had numerous stories published in pulp magazines like Triple-X, Short Stories,...
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