Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1904, Feb. 4 | Born, Webster City, Iowa |
| 1921-1924 | Reporter and assistant editor, Webster City Daily News, Webster City, Iowa |
| 1925 | Moved to Chicago, Ill.; free-lance writer |
| 1926 | Married Irene Layne (died 1982) |
| 1926-1927 | Reporter, Republican, Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
| 1928 | Published first novel, Diversey (New York: Coward McCann. 345 pp.) |
| 1930 | Published El Goes South (New York: Coward McCann. 297 pp.) |
| 1930-1931 | Columnist, Des Moines Tribune, Des Moines, Iowa |
| 1932 | Published The Jaybird (New York: Coward McCann. 293 pp.) |
| 1934 | Published Long Remember (New York: Coward McCann. 411 pp.) Screenwriter, Paramount Productions, Hollywood, Calif. |
| 1935 | Published The Voice of Bugle Ann (New York: Coward McCann. 128 pp.) Published Turkey in the Straw: A Book of American Ballads and Primitive Verse (New York: Coward McCann. 90 pp.) |
| 1936 | Published Arouse and Beware (New York: Coward McCann. 332 pp.) Screenwriter, Paramount Productions, Hollywood, Calif. |
| 1937 | Published The Romance of Rosy Ridge (New York: Coward McCann. 96 pp.) |
| 1938 | Published The Noise of Their Wings (New York: Coward McCann. 240 pp.) Published Here Lies Holly Springs (New York: Pynson Printers. 37 pp.) |
| 1939 | Published The Valedictory (New York: Coward McCann. 92 pp.) |
| 1940 | Published Cuba Libra: A Story (New York: Coward McCann. 136 pp.) |
| 1942 | Published Gentle Annie: A Western Novel (New York: Coward McCann. 249 pp.) Published Angleworms on Toast (New York: Coward McCann. 29 pp.) Screenwriter, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hollywood, Calif. |
| 1943 | Published Happy Land (New York: Coward McCann. 92 pp.) Screenwriter, Twentieth Century Fox, Hollywood, Calif. |
| 1943-1945 | War correspondent for various magazines |
| 1944 | Published Author's Choice (New York: Coward McCann. 497 pp.) Screenwriter, Samuel Goldwyn, Hollywood, Calif. |
| 1945 | Special assignment with the air force to write official report on the air war in World War II Published Glory for Me, a novel in verse used for the Academy Award-winning motion picture film, Best Years of Our Lives (New York: Coward McCann. 268 pp.) |
| 1947 | Published But Look, the Morn; The Story of A Childhood (New York: Coward McCann. 308 pp.) |
| 1948 | Published Midnight Lace (New York: Random House. 309 pp.) Published Wicked Water: An American Primitive (New York: Random House. 216 pp.) |
| 1949 | Published The Good Family (New York: Coward McCann. 150 pp.) |
| 1950 | War correspondent in Korea, True Magazine, flying for a month on combat missions with the 325th Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group Published One Wild Oat (New York: Fawcett. 156 pp.) Published Signal Thirty-Two (New York: Random House. 370 pp.) Published Lee and Grant at Appomattox (New York: Random House. 175 pp.) |
| 1951 | Published Don't Touch Me (New York: Random House. 243 pp.) |
| 1951-1953 | Consultant, United States Air Force, studying personnel, equipment, and training operations at Mediterranean bases |
| 1952 | Published Warwhoop: Two Short Novels of the Frontier (New York: Random House. 246 pp.) Published Gettysburg (New York: Random House. 189 pp.) |
| 1953 | Published The Daughter of Bugle Ann (New York: Random House. 122 pp.) |
| 1954 | Published God and My Country (Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing. 128 pp.) |
| 1955 | Published Andersonville (Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing. 767 pp.); received Pulitzer Prize for Fiction |
| 1957 | Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom for services to the air force Published Lobo (Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing. 110 pp.) |
| 1958 | Published The Work of Saint Francis (Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing. 107 pp.) Published Silent Grow the Guns and Other Tales of the American Civil War (New York: New American Library. 158 pp.) |
| 1959 | Published short story collection, Frontier; Tales of the American Adventure (New York: New American Library. 160 pp.) |
| 1960 | Published short story collection, It's About Crime (New York: New American Library. 157 pp.) |
| 1961 | Published Spirit Lake (Cleveland, Ohio: World Publishing. 957 pp.) Published If The South Had Won the Civil War (New York: Bantam. 112 pp.) |
| 1963 | Published The Gun-Toter and Other Stories of the Missouri Hills (New York: New American Library. 160 pp.) |
| 1965 | Published, with Curtis E. LeMay, Mission with LeMay: My Story (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 581 pp.) |
| 1967 | Published Story Teller (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 462 pp.) |
| 1968 | Published Beauty Beast (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 382 pp.) Published The Day I Met A Lion (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 341 pp.) |
| 1969 | Published Missouri Bittersweet (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 342 pp.) |
| 1970 | Published, with Tim Kantor, Hamilton County (New York: Macmillan. 288 pp.) |
| 1972 | Published I Love You, Irene (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday. 347 pp.) |
| 1973 | Published The Children Sing (New York: Hawthorn. 213 pp.) |
| 1975 | Published Valley Forge (New York: M. Evans and Lippincott. 339 pp.) |
| 1977, Oct. 11 | Died, Sarasota, Fla. |