MacKinlay Kantor
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A Midwestern upbringing combined with early exposure to journalism shaped his literary path, as he grew up in Webster City, Iowa, where his mother edited the local paper and the public library served as his informal university. After a stint writing pulp crime stories and publishing his first novel in the late 1920s, he turned to historical fiction, producing several Civil War narratives that drew…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources