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MacKinlay Kantor

マッキンライ・カントール

Makkinrei Kantōru

Aliases: Benjamin McKinlay Kantor

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1904-02-04 （Webster City, Iowa）
Died
1977-10-11 （Sarasota, Florida） age 73
Nationality
American
Languages
English
Religion
Unknown （Baptismal Name: Unknown）
Residence History
Webster City, Iowa → New Jersey → Sarasota, Florida

Career

Occupations
journalist, novelist, screenwriter
Active Years
1928-1975
Influenced
Cormac McCarthy

Awards

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1956
Work: Andersonville
Organization: Columbia University
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Andersonville

1955 Historical novel 767 pages

A novel about the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp during the American Civil War.

horrors of warhumanityprisoner suffering

Gettysburg

1952 Historical novel

A novel set during the Battle of Gettysburg.

American Civil Warheroessacrifice

Glory for Me

1945 War novel

Story of World War II veterans returning home.

post-war readjustmenttraumahope
Adaptations
  • [Film] The Best Years of Our Lives / William Wyler (1946)

Bibliography

  • Diversey (1928)
  • Long Remember (1934)
  • Glory for Me (1945)
  • Andersonville (1955)
  • Valley Forge (1975)

Adaptations

  • Gun Crazy (1950)
  • The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
  • Follow Me, Boys! (1966)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Minimal use of quotation marksSparse punctuation
Recurring Motifs
American Civil Warimpact of warAmerican history

Health

  • Heart attack
    1977
    Cause of death

Legacy

Pulitzer Prize winner known for Civil War novels.

Archives

  • University of Iowa Special Collections

In Popular Culture

  • Influenced Cormac McCarthy's style.

Trivia

  • His father was a Swedish Jew who posed as a Protestant clergyman.
  • Kantor influenced Cormac McCarthy's punctuation style.
  • He self-published some works in the 1930s and 1940s.