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Will Levington Comfort

Born: 01/17/1878   Kalamazoo
Died: 11/02/1932
Parents: Silas H. and Jane Comfort
Spouse: Adith Duffie-Mulholland
Children: Jane Levington Comfort Sturtzel, John Duffie, Tom Tyrone

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The Pilot Comes Aboard Fiction Adult New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1932
Apache
- Biographical fiction. 		Fiction Adult New York, E. P. Dutton &co., inc 1931
Samadhi Fiction Adult Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin 1927
Somewhere South in Sonora Fiction Adult Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin 1925
The Public Square Fiction Adult New York : Appleton 1923
This Man's World Fiction Adult Garden City, N.Y., Toronto : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921
The Yellow Lord Fiction Adult New York, George H. Doran company 1919
The Hive Fiction , Short Stories Adult New York, George H. Doran company 1918
The Last Ditch Fiction Adult New York, George H. Doran company 1916
Child and Country: a Book of the Younger Generation George H. Doran 1915
Lot & Company Fiction Adult New York : Doran 1915
The Road of Living Men; a novel Fiction Adult Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott company 1913
Fate Knocks at the Door; a novel Fiction Adult Philadelphia London, J. B. Lippincott company 1912
She Buildeth Her House Fiction Adult Philadelphia & London : Lippincott 1911
Routledge Rides Alone Fiction Adult Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company 1910
Lady of Fallen Star Island Fiction Adult New York : Street & Smith 1902
Trooper Tales: a Series of Sketches of the Real American Private Soldier Fiction Adult New York : Street & Smith 1899
What is the aim or goal of your writing: It was said, " the romantic in Comfort was always tending to crowd out the realist, and increasingly so as he grew older. " Arnold Mulder, Michigan History, September, 1951. His first successful novel, a somehat loosely constructed story of adventure and diplomatic intrigue, entitled 'Routledge Rides Alone', was published in 1910. It was so unflattering a picture of the glories of war that peace societies are said to have used it as propaganda.

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Michigan Authors, 2nd ed., 3rd ed.
- Listed in the following editions: 1980, 1993 		1980 -1993
Michigan Poets with Supplement to Michigan Authors 1960 1964
American Authors and Books
Contemporary American Literature
Dictionary of American Biography
Dictionary of North American Authors
National Cyclopaedia of American Biography
Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature
Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
Twentieth Century Authors
Who Was Who in America
Who Was Who Among North American Authors

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Detroit Public Schools

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Novelist 1910 -1931
Reporter Pittsburgh Dispatch Russia and Japan 1904
War correspondent Detroit Journal Philippines and China 1899
5th U.S. Cavalry Spanish-American War 1898
Baseball player

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Will Levington Comfort Papers, 1910-1932 are archived at UCLA::Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library. Content and contact information can be viewed at: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6j49p124/

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