MacKinlay Kantor was born in Webster City, Iowa, on February 4, 1904. In 1934, he published Long Remember, which received numerous rave reviews and became his first bestseller. Ten years later, Kantor was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Andersonville. He was one of the most well-known American writers during the 1950s and still remains one of the most respected Civil War authors to date. He died on October 11, 1977.
"A novel that tastes and smells of war till the reader hates the
smell and taste of it, and still is above and beyond war with the
saving humanity that survives slaughter and does its slight part to
prevent a future built on the past." --New York Times "Undoubtedly
the best historical novel of the old-fashioned spectacular genre in
American literarture. . . . As a spectacle of war, the book has no
equal." --The Nation "How such an epic and dramatic talk has not
before been told in American ficiton is one of the mysteries of our
literary history. Passionis piled upon passion in his words, and
war, maked and flaming, stalks trough the pages." --Chicago Daily
Tribune
"There is no book ever written which creates, so well as this, the
look and smell of battle, the gathering of two armies, the clash,
and the sullen separation. . . . It would be a distinct addition to
American fiction if a school of hsitorical novelists should pattern
themselves upon this model." --Allen Tate "A stirring, utterly
American book of men and women and war. It is as free of
sentimentality as of partisanship, and as full of pulsing life as
it is faithful to the past. It is a work of distinction by an
author energetic enough to know that the past is not too easily
found, and talented enough to bring the long forgotten not only
into remembrance but vigourously into life." --Saturday Book Review
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