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MacKinlay Kantor (February 4, 1904 – October 11, 1977), [1] born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, [1] was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the American Civil War , and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel, Andersonville .
Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville prison during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. Kantor's novel was not the basis for a 1996 John Frankenheimer film Andersonville ...
Gun Crazy (also known as Deadly Is the Female) [1] is a 1950 American crime film noir starring Peggy Cummins and John Dall in a story about the crime-spree of a gun-toting husband and wife. [2] It was directed by Joseph H. Lewis , and produced by Frank and Maurice King .
If the South Had Won the Civil War is a 1961 alternate history book by MacKinlay Kantor, a writer who also wrote several novels about the American Civil War. [1] It was originally published in the November 22, 1960, issue of Look magazine. It generated such a response that it was published in 1961 as a book.
Spirit Lake is a 1961 novel by MacKinlay Kantor. It is set in Iowa during the era of Manifest Destiny, and depicts the epoch through a patchwork of numerous characters, families, and factions. [1] The book comes to a climax with the Spirit Lake Massacre. [2] [3]
by MacKinlay Kantor: Produced by: Jack Cummings: Starring: Van Johnson Thomas Mitchell Marshall Thompson Selena Royle Dean Stockwell Janet Leigh: Cinematography: Sidney Wagner: Edited by: Ralph E. Winters: Music by: George Bassman: Color process: Black and white
Gentle Annie is a film with a Western theme, directed in 1944 by Andrew Marton, starring Donna Reed and James Craig. Marjorie Main played the role of Annie Goss. A notable actor in this film is Harry Morgan, who plays Cottonwood Goss.
Kantor mainly discusses the feelings of each army, both victorious and shellacked, and pays special attention to the history and interaction between Grant and Lee. The story also addresses the lasting bitterness between the North and South for years following the Civil War.