Conrad Richter

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Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890-October 30, 1968) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist whose lyrical work focuses on life along the American frontier.

[edit] Early life

Born in Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, he took a job as editor of a local weekly newspaper, the Patton Pennsylvania Courier, when he was just 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 health in 1928.

[edit] Literary output

Some of his works, including The Sea of Grass and The Light in the Forest, were later turned into films. The Town, the third installment of his The Awakening Hand trilogy, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951.