James
Oliver
Curwood
Born:
06/12/1878
Owosso
,
MI
Died: 08/13/1927
Parents: James Moran and Abigail Curwood
Spouse: Cora Leon Johnson (1900-1908); Ethel Greenwood (1909-1927)
Children: Viola, Carolotta, James Oliver, Jr.
Address(es):
Interred:
Oak Hill Cemetery
Owosso , MI
Died: 08/13/1927
Parents: James Moran and Abigail Curwood
Spouse: Cora Leon Johnson (1900-1908); Ethel Greenwood (1909-1927)
Children: Viola, Carolotta, James Oliver, Jr.
Address(es):
Interred:
Oak Hill Cemetery
Owosso , MI
Writings
Image | Title | Genre | Audience | Publisher | Date |
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Green Timber - Unfinished at the time of his death, completed by Dorothea A. Bryant. |
Fiction | Adult | Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Doran and company, inc. | 1930 | |
Son of the forests, an autobiography by James Oliver Curwood, as completed by Dorothea A. Bryant. | Biography | Adult | Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Doran & company, inc. | 1930 | |
Crippled lady of Peribonka | Fiction | Adult | New York : Grosset & Dunlap Publishers | 1929 | |
The Glory of Living - Autobiography |
Biography | Adult | Hodder & Stoughton | 1928 | |
The Plains of Abraham | Historical Fiction | Adult | Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Doran & company | 1928 | |
The Black Hunter : a novel of old Quebec | Historical Fiction | Adult | Toronto : Copp Clark | 1927 | |
Swift Lightning; a story of wild-life adventure in the frozen North | Fiction , Adventure | Adult | New York, McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie | 1926 | |
A gentleman of courage; a novel of the wilderness | Historical Fiction , Michigan | Adult | New YOrk, Cosmopolitan Book Corp. | 1924 | |
The Alaskan | Fiction , Adventure | Adult | New York: Grosset & Dunlap | 1923 -1926 | |
Nomads of the North; a Story of Romance and Adventure Under the Open Stars | Fiction , Adventure | Adult | New York : Doubleday, Doran & Co. | 1922 | |
The Country Beyond; a Romance of the Wilderness | Fiction , Adventure , Western | Adult | New York, McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie | 1922 | |
The flaming forest; a novel of the Canadian northwest - Filmed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. |
Fiction , Adventure | Adult | New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corp | 1921 | |
A north-country omnibus : containing three complete novels / by James Oliver Curwood | Fiction , Adventure | Adult | New York: Grosset & Dunlap | 1921 | |
Back to God's Country | Fiction , Short Stories | Adult | New York, McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie | 1920 | |
The Valley of Silent Men: a Story of the Three River Country | Fiction | Adult | New York : Grosset & Dunlap | 1920 | |
The River's End; a New Story of God's Country | Fiction , Adventure | Adult | New York : Cosmopolitan Book Corporation | 1919 | |
The courage of Marge O'Doone | Fiction , Michigan | Adult | New York : Published by Doubleday, Page for P.F. Collier | 1918 | |
Baree, Son of Kazan | Fiction , Adventure | Children | New York : Doubleday, Page for P.F. Collier & Son | 1917 | |
The Grizzly King, a Romance of the Wild - Filmed as "The Bear", 1992. |
Fiction , Adventure | Adult | New York: Grosset & Dunlap | 1916 | |
The Hunted Woman | Fiction | Adult | New York : Published by Doubleday, Page for P. F. Collier | 1916 | |
God's Country | Fiction , Adventure | Adult | New York: Doubleday, Page | 1915 | |
Kazan | Fiction , Adventure | Children | New York, Grosset & Dunlap | 1914 | |
The Beloved Murderer - First appeared in Munsey’s: January 1913, pp. 562-66 |
Fiction , Adventure | Adult | Winthrop Press | 1914 | |
Isobel, a Romance of the Northern Trail | Fiction | Adult | New York : Harper & Brothers | 1913 | |
Flower of the North | Fiction , Michigan | Adult | New York : Harper Brothers | 1912 | |
Philip Steel of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police - Also published with the alternate title: Steele of the Royal Mounted. |
Fiction , Adventure | Adult | Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company | 1911 | |
The Honor of the Big Snows | Fiction | Adult | Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill | 1911 | |
The Danger Trail | Fiction , Adventure | Adult | Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company | 1910 | |
The gold hunters : a story of life and adventure in the Hudson Bay wilds | Fiction , Adventure | Adult | Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company | 1909 | |
The Great Lakes : the vessels that plough them, their owners, their sailors, and their cargoes : together with a brief history of our inland seas | Non Fiction | Adult | New York : Putnam | 1909 | |
Courage of Captain Plum | Fiction , Adventure | Adult | Indianapolis The Bobbs-Merrill Company | 1908 | |
The Wolf Hunters | Fiction , Adventure | Adult | Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company | 1908 | |
- Novels appeared in many editions, in several foreign languages. Many novels are still in print. Check MeLCat links. Many are also in the public domain, and can be found on gutenberg.org . |
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Skills:
Author
Education:
Degree | Institution | Location | Date |
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Master of Arts (M.A.) | Wayne State University | Detroit , MI | 1971 |
Career:
Position | Organization | Location | Date |
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Freelance writer
- Explored Hudson Bay |
Canadian Government | 1927 | |
Founder | First conservation movement in Michigan | MI | 1927 |
Reporter and Editor | Detroit News-Tribune | ||
Chairman | Game, Fish & Wildlife Committee of the Conservation Department | State of Michigan | |
Head | Izaak Walton League |
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Local information and pictures may be found at http://www.shiawasseehistory.com/curwood.html
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