Born: 05/11/1893   Bay City , MI
Died: 01/16/1929
Parents: Leonard L Cline and Jessie Forsyth.
Spouse: Mary L. Smurthwaite
Children: Mary and Leonard
Address(es):
Last known address:
New York City , NY

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	The Lady of Frozen Death and Other Stories - Short Stories by Alan Forsyth and edited by Douglas A. Anderson	Fiction		Necronomicon Press	1992
	After-walker, the poems of Leonard Clin	Poetry	Adult	New York, The Viking press	1930
	The Dark Chamber	Fiction , Horror	Adult	New York, The Viking Press	1927
	Listen, Moon - deals with a professor assuming the role of a pirate along the Chesapeake	Fiction	Adult	New York : Viking Press	1926
	God Head - deals with the Kalevala legends in a modern society...Published in London as Ahead the Thunder in 1927	Fiction	Adult	New York, The Viking Press	1925
	Poems	Poetry	Adult	Boston, Mass. : Poet Lore Co	1914
	Other writings: - writings appeared in a variety of magazines--The New Republic, The American Mercury, The Smart Set, The Nation and Scribner's Magazine

What is the aim or goal of your writing: St. James says, "His life and career were tragic. He began with a volume of poetry, then progressed to novels, one of which God Head, drew a great deal of critical acclaim and was compared to Dostoevsky. Unfortunately, he drank to excess, which may have ended both his marriages. In a drunken argument, he killed his friend Wilfred Irwin with a shotgun. A much publicized trial follwed, during which Cline pleaded guilty of manslaughter. He served less than a year in prison, but died of heart failure, probably the result of alcholism, at the age of 35." "His The Dark Chamber is one of those novels which is now remembered almost solely for what H. P. Lovecraft said about it and of interest more for how it may have influenced Lovecraft than for its own merits."

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"'The nearest thing to the sublime in Michigan' Leonard Lanson Cline had written in the The Nation back in November 1922, 'is the Ford factory.'"

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