Ross Lockridge, Jr.
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 Lockridge in 1947 |
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| Born | Ross Franklin Lockridge, Jr. April 25, 1914 Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
| Died | March 6, 1948 (aged 33) Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Alma mater | Indiana University |
| Writing period | 1948 |
| Genres | Historical fiction |
| Notable work(s) | Raintree County |
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Ross Franklin Lockridge, Jr., (April 25, 1914 – March 6, 1948) was an American novelist of the mid-20th century. He is most noted for Raintree County (1948), an expansive attempt at creating the "Great American Novel".
[edit] Biography
Lockridge was born and rasied in Bloomington, Indiana. He graduated from Indiana University in 1935 with the highest average in the history of the university. Lockridge married and had four children.
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Lockridge's novel Raintree County was published in early 1948, to great critical acclaim. It traces the history of a fictional 19th century midwestern county through the reminiscences of its protagonist, John Wickliff Shawnessy.
Suffering from severe depression, Lockridge committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning shortly after the novel's publication. His grave is in Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington.
[edit] References
- Leggett, John (1974). Ross and Tom: Two American Tragedies. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 067121733X.
- Lockridge, Larry (1994). Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr.. New York: Viking Penguin. ISBN 0670854409.
- Lockridge, Ernest (2004). Travels with Ernest: Crossing the Literary/Sociological Divide. New York: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-7591-0596-0, 0-7591-0597-9.
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