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Canadian Historical Novelists: Thomas B. Costain, Bill Gallaher, Thomas Head Raddall, Margaret Moore, Jack Whyte, Evelyn Eaton, Pauline Gedge
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-15.
ISBN 9781156256558
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Chapters: Thomas B. Costain, Bill Gallaher, Thomas Head Raddall, Margaret Moore, Jack Whyte, Evelyn Eaton, Pauline Gedge, Margaret Doody, Victor Suthren, Paul Marlowe. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Thomas Bertram Costain (May 8, 1885 - October 8, 1965) was a Canadian journalist who became a best-selling author of historical novels at the age of 57. Costain was born in Brantford, Ontario to John Herbert Costain and Mary Schultz. He attended high school there as well as the Brantford Collegiate Institute. Before graduating from high school he had written four novels, one of which was a 70, 000 word romance about Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange. These early novels were all rejected by publishers. His first writing success came in 1902 when the Brantford Courier accepted a mystery story from him, and he became a reporter there (for five dollars a week). He was an editor at the Guelph Daily Mercury between 1908 and 1910. He married Ida Randolph Spragge (1888-1975) in York, Ontario on January 12, 1910. The couple had two children, Molly (Mrs. Howard Haycraft) and Dora (Mrs. Henry Darlington Steinmetz). Also in 1910, Costain joined the Maclean Publishing Group where he edited three trade journals. Beginning in 1914, he was a staff writer for and, from 1917, editor of Toronto-based Maclean's magazine. His success there brought him to the attention of The Saturday Evening Post in New York City where he was fiction editor for fourteen years. In 1920 he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He also worked for Doubleday Books as an editor 1939-1946. He was the head of 20th Century Foxs bureau of literary development (story department) from 1934 to 1942. In 1940, he wrote four short novels but was enough of an editor not to send them out. He next planned t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=87593
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