H.W.
Fordyce
Born:
02/05/1906
Adrian
,
MI
Died: 05/10/1968
Parents: Arch Seager, Emma Seager
Spouse: Barbara, died 1966; Joan
Children: Mary and Laura with first wife
Address(es):
Last known address:
Tecumseh , MI
Died: 05/10/1968
Parents: Arch Seager, Emma Seager
Spouse: Barbara, died 1966; Joan
Children: Mary and Laura with first wife
Address(es):
Last known address:
Tecumseh , MI
Writings
| Image | Title | Genre | Audience | Publisher | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
The Glass House: the Life of Theodore Roethke - Published posthumously. Reprinted in 1991 by University of Michigan Press. |
Biography | Adult | New York : McGraw-Hill | 1968 | |
| A frieze of girls : memoirs of fiction | Biography , Michigan , Short Stories | Adult | New York : McGraw-Hill | 1964 | |
|
Memoirs of a tourist [by] Stendhal [pseud.] Translated by Allan Seager. With illus. by Roger Barr. - Translator |
Adventure , Travel | Adult | [Evanston, Ill.] Northwestern University Press | 1962 | |
| Death of Anger | Fiction , Michigan | Adult | McDowell-Obolensky/New York, N.Y. : Avon Book Division | 1960 | |
|
Hilda Manning - Fine close-up of small town [in Lenawee County] characters is this portrait of a misunderstood woman who has a powerful effect on others. |
Fiction , Michigan | Adult | New York: Simon & Schuster | 1956 | |
|
Amos Berry - His son tries to discover what motivated Amos Berry, a small town [in Lenawee County] businessman, to murder. |
Fiction , Michigan | Adult | New York: Simon & Schuster | 1953 | |
| The Old Man of the Mountain and Seventeen Other Stories | Fiction , Short Stories | Adult | New York : Simon and Schuster | 1950 | |
| The Inheritance | Fiction , Michigan | Adult | New York : Simon and Schuster | 1948 | |
| Equinox, a novel | Fiction | Adult | New York: Simon & Schuster | 1943 | |
|
They Worked for a Better World - Essays written about Roger Williams, Thomas Paine, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Edward Bellamy and their contributions to American society. |
Biography | Adult | New York: MacMillan | 1939 | |
|
Other writings: - About 80 stories in magazines like Atlantic, New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, etc. Writing has appeared in various foreign languages |
Adult |
What is the aim or goal of your writing:
"Mr. Seeger set his novels in the pleasant rural midwest, but dramatized dark psychological tensions and themes of social protesst. Critics praised his wit and craftsmanship." New York Times, November 10, 1977
"Once", he wrote of himself, "I would have hesitated to say that the novel is the conscience of the middle class, but when I remember of my own Equinox, The Inheritance and Amos Berry, I discover that I believe it."
May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No
Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No
Skills:
Author
Awards:
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| Guggenheim Fellowship | 1966 |
Inclusion in biographical or critical works:
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| Ink Trails II by Dave and Jack Dempsey | 2015 |
| Michigan Authors, 3rd ed. | 1993 |
| Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities | 1988 |
| Michigan Authors, 2nd ed. | 1980 |
|
Michigan in Fiction
- Michigan Department of Education |
1976 |
|
Contemporary Authors
- Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 5-8R Contemporary Authors - Obituary, volume(s) 25-28R |
1970 -1977 |
| Michigan Poets with suppplement to Michigan Authors 1960 | 1964 |
| American Authors and Books | |
| American Novelists of Today | |
| Concise Dictionary of American Literature | |
| Oxford Companion to American Literature | |
| Twentieth Century Authors | |
| Who Was Who in America | |
| Who Was Who among English and European Authors |
Memberships:
| Name | Date |
|---|---|
| National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities | 1966 |
Education:
| Degree | Institution | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master of Arts (M.A.) | Oriel College | Oxford, England | 1947 |
|
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
- Rhodes Scholar |
Oriel College | Oxford, England | 1933 |
| Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor , MI | 1930 |
Career:
| Position | Organization | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Professor-English Department
- in midyear of 1963-64, consented to extend his teaching services to full-time. |
University of Michigan | Ann Arbor , MI | 1958 -1968 |
|
Assistant Editor
- for a year and a half |
Vanity Fair | 1947 | |
| Teacher | Bennington College | Bennington | 1944 -1945 |
|
Instructor 1939; Assistant Professor in 1943, Associate Professor in 1947, and Professor in 1958.
- During these years he taught part-time in the English Department of the University, concurrently as he wrote. |
University of Michigan | Ann Arbor , MI | 1935 -1963 |
| Novelist, Short story writer, translator, and biographer | 1933 -1968 |
Other Resources:
Other Comments:
The Allan Seager papers are housed at the The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.
Seager died of lung cancer in Tecumseh, Michigan.
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