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Biography of MacKinlay Kantor
Author, journalist, novelist, and screenwriter.
MacKinlay Kantor was born in Webster City, Iowa, in 1904, and worked as a reporter there from 1921 until 1924. He moved to Chicago in 1925 and tried his hand at freelance writing, after which he combined journalism with literary writing. Kantor's best known works include Andersonville, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956, and other novels of the Civil War. Kantor passed away in 1977.