Born: 08/04/1915   HamiltonCounty
Died: 01/03/1987
Parents: John W. Martin, Laura Martin
Spouse: Frances
Children: Cynthia, Daniel, John

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	t seems like only yesterday : memoirs of writing, presidential politics, and the diplomatic life - Autobiography	Biography	Adult	New York : W. Morrow	1986
	The Televising of Heller, a novel	Fiction	Adult	Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday	1980
	Adlai Stevenson of Illinois : the life of Adlai E. Stevenson ( 2 Vols.)	Biography	Adult	Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday	1976 -1977
	Overtaken by Events; the Dominican crisis from the fall of Trujillo to the civil war.	History	Adult	New York, Doubleday	1966
	Jimmy Hoffa's Hot - Originally published in the Saturday evening post under the title ?The struggle to get Hoffa.	Non Fiction , Michigan	Adult	Greenwich, Conn., Fawcett Publications	1959
	The Pane of Glass	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, Harper	1959
	Break Down the Walls; American prisons: present, past, and future. - Michigan State Prison.	Michigan	Adult	New York, Ballantine Books	1954
	Butcher's Dozen, and other murders.	Non Fiction	Adult	New York, Harper	1950
	Indiana, an Interpretation - (Publication Years: 1947, 1972)	Non Fiction , History	Adult	New York, A.A. Knopf	1947
	Call It North Country: the story of upper Michigan - In the foreword to the 2nd edition of Call it North Country, Martin relates that it was written in his twenties and that the caretaker at the camp where he went on his honeymoon to Michiganne, Michigan introduced him to people. He and his wife purchased land for Upper Peninsula summer home. (Publication Years: 1944, 1987)	Michigan History	Adult	New York, A.A.Knopf	1944
	Other writings: - In Harper's, Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, True Detective, Reader's Digest, Outdoor Life, and Esquire	Non Fiction	Adult

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Name	Date
Indiana Authors' Day Award, Indiana University Writers' Conference, Ohioana Book Award	1967
Benjamin Franklin Magazine Award - Award received for following years: 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958	1954 -1958
Sigma Delta Chi Magazine Award - Award received for following years: 1950, 1957	1950 -1957

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Although not born in Michigan, Mr. Martin is included in this database because of his early book on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and because he did much of his writing in his Michigan summer home.

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