Gwen Bristow (1903-1980), the author of seven bestselling
historical novels that bring to life momentous events in American
history, such as the siege of Charleston during the American
Revolution (Celia Garth) and the great California gold rush
(Calico Palace), was born in South Carolina, where the
Bristow family had settled in the seventeenth century. After
graduating from Judson College in Alabama and attending the
Columbia School of Journalism, Bristow worked as a reporter for New
Orleans' Times-Picayune from 1925 to 1934. Through her
husband, screenwriter Bruce Manning, she developed an interest in
longer forms of writing-novels and screenplays.
After Bristow moved to Hollywood, her literary career took off with
the publication of Deep Summer, the first novel in a trilogy
of Louisiana-set historical novels, which also includes The
Handsome Road and This Side of Glory. Bristow continued
to write about the American South and explored the settling of the
American West in her bestselling novels Jubilee Trail, which
was made into a film in 1954, and in her only work of nonfiction,
Golden Dreams. Her novel Tomorrow Is Forever also
became a film, starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, and
Natalie Wood, in 1946.
"A superior kind of tale." -TheNew York Time
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