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Michael Costello

Born: 09/04/1891   Fort Wayne
Died: 04/28/1987
Parents: August and Laura Detzer
Spouse: Clarice Nissley Detzer
Children: Karl, Jr., Mary Jane (Mrs. John Moench)

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Myself When Young Biography Adult New York, Funk & Wagnalls 1968
Culture Under Canvas: The Story of Tent Chautaugua Non Fiction Adult New York: Hastings House/Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press 1958 -1978
Army Reader
- Edited with Clarice Nissley Detzer 		Non Fiction Adult Indianapolis, New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1945
The Mightiest Army
- With Clarice Nissley Detzer 		Non Fiction Adult Reader's Digest 1945
Carl Sandburg, Study in Personality Non Fiction Adult New York: Harcourt Brace 1941
Contrabando
- With Clarice Nissley Detzer 		Fiction Adult Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company 1936
Car 99
- Screenplay based on the Michigan State Police 		Drama , Michigan Adult 1934
Pirate of the Pine Lands: being the adventures of young Tom Lansing afloat and ashore on the Michigan frontier in the years 1852 to 1854, Fiction Teen Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company 1929
The Broken Three; A War Mystery
- With Clarice Nissley Detzer 		Fiction , Picture Book Children Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company 1929
The Marked Man: A Romance of The Great Lakes
- With Clarice Nissley Detzer 		Fiction Adult Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company 1927
True Tales of the D. C. I.
- With Clarice Nissley Detzer 		Fiction Adult Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company 1925
Other writings:
- Included in serveral anthologies, numerous articles for Reader's Digest 		Adult

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Master of Arts (M.A.) Oakland University Rochester , MI 1979 -1980

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Chairman Michigan Citizens Committee on Reorganization of State Government 1950 -1951
Special adviser Berlin, Germany 1948
Publisher Enterprise-Tribune Leland , MI 1947 -1951
Colonel United States Army 1944 -1946
Roving editor
- Retired with life pension 		Reader's Digest 1938 -1977
Screeplay writer, Director Hollywood 1934 -1936
Advertising writer Chicago 1920 -1923
Indiana National Guard Mexico Border 1916 -1917
Newspaper reporter, Photographer Ft. Wayne 1909 -1916
Captain, Infantry World War I United States Army

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