MacKinlay Kantor

MacKinlay Kantor was an American writer, journalist, screenwriter and novelist (1904–1977). He was born at Webster City and died at Sarasota.

Also recorded as Benjamin McKinlay Kantor.

MacKinlay Kantor in brief

Born
1904
Died
1977
Known for
writer, journalist, screenwriter and novelist
Place of birth
Webster City
Contents

Catalogued works

39 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and The Art Institute of Chicago. Their recorded dates run from 1917 to 1930.

Andersonville. Lee and Grant at Appomattox. If the South Had Won the Civil War. God and My Country. Spirit Lake. The Moon-Caller. Happy land. More Stories to Remember -- Volume II. The Jaybird. My Most Inspiring Moment. Tantalizing locked room mysteries. Hamilton County. The work of Saint Francis. Arouse and beware. Long remember. Voice of Bugle Ann. Beauty Beast. Missouri Bittersweet. Valley Forge. Lobo. Gettysburg. But Look the Morn. I Love You, Irene. The Children Sing. Midnight Lace. Again the bugle. Angleworms on toast. Author's choice. But look, the morn. Cuba Libre. The day I met a lion. Don't Touch Me. El goes south. Follow Me, Boys! The good family. Haunted House, dated 1930, oil on canvas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1931.707. Reclining Female Nude, dated n.d., graphite on cream wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1956.351. Untitled, dated n.d., pen and brush and black ink, with brown ink, on off-white wove paper, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1961.18. Off to War, dated 1917, silk; batik dyed; screen printed, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1917.246.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 4 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

3 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Kantor, MacKinlay (1904-1977), novelist and short-story writer, American National Biography Online, 2000. MacKinlay Kantor (1935), The Literature of the Ozarks, 2019. Remembering the Spain of the Pre-Exile: Juan Ramón Jiménez, MacKinlay Kantor and 1956, Spain’s 1939 Exiles in the Americas and Maryland, 2022.

Digitised editions and texts

11 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Happy Land (1943) — Internet Archive. Lee and Grant at Appomattox (1950) — Internet Archive. The Voice of Bougle Ann (1935) — Internet Archive. Happy Land and Gentle Annie (1944) — Internet Archive. The Voice of Bugle Ann (1935) — Internet Archive. The Good Family (1949) — Internet Archive. Author's Choice 40 Stories (1944) — Internet Archive. Don't touch me (1951) — Internet Archive. Gettysburg (1952) — Internet Archive. Long remember (2000) — Internet Archive. Beauty Beast (1969) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 19 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1904MacKinlay Kantor born at Webster City.
  2. 1935The Voice of Bougle Ann digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1935The Voice of Bugle Ann digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 1943Happy Land digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 1944Happy Land and Gentle Annie digitised by Internet Archive.
  6. 1949The Good Family digitised by Internet Archive.
  7. 1950Lee and Grant at Appomattox digitised by Internet Archive.
  8. 1977MacKinlay Kantor died at Sarasota.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    “MacKinlay Kantor”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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  2. 2.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1226282: MacKinlay Kantor

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