Conrad Richter
Novelist
Died when: 78 years 17 days (936 months)Star Sign: Libra
Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968) was an American novelist whose lyrical work was concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods.
His novel The Town (1950), the last story of his trilogy The Awakening Land about the Ohio frontier, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
His novel The Waters of Kronos won the 1961 National Book Award for Fiction. Two collections of short stories were published posthumously during the 20th century, and several of his novels have been reissued during the 21st century by academic presses.
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