Conrad Richter
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Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890-October 30, 1968) was an award-winning American of German origin novelist whose lyrical work focuses on life along the American frontier.
Born in Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, he took a job as editor of a local newspaper, the Courier, when he was just nineteen. He subsequently founded a juvenile magazine before moving to New Mexico in 1928.
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 Awakening Land trilogy, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1951.
His 1960 The Waters of Kronos, an autobiographical novel, received the National Book Award.
Some of his novels have been translated into Marathi by G. A. Kulkarni, for a project initiated by USIS in India to bring some fine American writing into Indian languages.
[edit] Selected works
- Smoke over the Prairie (1935)
- The Trees (1940)
- The Fields (1946)
- The Town (1950)
- The Light in the Forest (1953)
- The Waters of Kronos (1960)
