A Simple Honorable Man
| Year of Publication |
1962
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| Publication Type |
Novel
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| Number of Pages or Episodes |
310 p.
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| Language |
English
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| Contributors |
Author:
Conrad Richter |
| Publisher |
Alfred A. Knopf
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| City |
New York
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| Abstract |
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.
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| Notes |
The novel is a fictionalized biography of the author's father, John Absalom Richter.
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| Author Biography |
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 The Waters of Kronos won the 1961 National Book Award. He died in Pottsville, Schuylkill County.
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| Time |
1880s-90s
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