MacKinlay Kantor
MacKinlay Kantor was an American writer, journalist, screenwriter and novelist (1904–1977). He was born in Webster City and died in Sarasota.
Also recorded as Benjamin McKinlay Kantor
MacKinlay Kantor
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- Born
- 1904 · Webster City.
- Died
- 1977 · Sarasota.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- writer · journalist · screenwriter · novelist
- Fields
- screenplay
- Honours
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- Languages
- English
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MacKinlay Kantor was an American writer, journalist, screenwriter and novelist (1904–1977). He was born in Webster City and died in Sarasota.
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1904
MacKinlay Kantor born at Webster City.
1977
MacKinlay Kantor died at Sarasota.
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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
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