TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - Italian Americans
KW - ministers
KW - seminaries
KW - Irish Americans
KW - Polish Americans
KW - Hungarian Americans
KW - Eastern Rite Catholics
KW - Westinghouse Electric Corporation
KW - Orthodox Christians
KW - Greek Americans
KW - Protestants
KW - coal industry
AU - Conrad Richter
AB - Storekeeper Harry Donner enters the seminary at age 40, is ordained eight years later, and then serves several mining towns of Central and Western Pennsylvania.
C1 - 1880s-90s
C3 - Allegheny County; E. Pittsburgh; Bedford County; Bedford; Cambria County; Johnstown; Ebensburg; Little Conemaugh River; Somerset County; Paint
C4 - Christian; Biographical; Historical; Psychological
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - The novel is a fictionalized biography of the author's father, John Absalom Richter.
N2 - Storekeeper Harry Donner enters the seminary at age 40, is ordained eight years later, and then serves several mining towns of Central and Western Pennsylvania.
PB - Alfred A. Knopf
PP - New York
PY - 1962
RN - Conrad Richter (1890-1968), born in Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, moved with his preacher father to various coal towns in Pennsylvania, and as a teenager he began as a journalist in Johnstown and Pittsburgh. Richter was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and his novel <em>The Waters of Kronos</em> won the 1961 National Book Award. He died in Pottsville, Schuylkill County.
EP - 310 p.
TI - A Simple Honorable Man
ER -