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John Towner Frederick

Born: 02/01/1893   Corning
Died: 01/31/1975
Parents: Oliver Roberts Frederick, Mary Elmira Towner
Spouse: Esther Paulus
Children: John Joseph, James Oliver
Address(es):
Internment
Harrisville , MI

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
William Henry Hudson Non Fiction , Biography Adult New York : Twayne Publishers 1972
Participation Texts Non Fiction Dramatic Pub. Co. 1969
The Darkened Sky : Ninteenth-Century American Novelists and Religion Non Fiction Adult Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press 1969
American Literature : An Anthology and Critical Survey
- Co-edited with Joe Lee Davis and Frank Luther Mott 		Non Fiction Adult New York : Scribner and Sons 1948
Out of the Midwest, A Collection of Present-Day Writing
- Editor 		Fiction , Non Fiction , Short Stories Adult New York : McGraw-Hill 1944
Present-Day Stories
- Editor 		Fiction , Non Fiction , Short Stories Adult New York : Scribner's Sons 1941
Reading for Writing : Studies in Substance and Form Fiction , Non Fiction Adult New York : F.S. Crofts & Co. 1935
Good Writing : A Book for College Students
- With Leo L. Ward 		Non Fiction Adult New York : F.S. Crofts & Co. 1934
Green Bush ; with nine drawings by George L. Stout
- Novel of Midwestern Farm Life 		Fiction , Michigan Adult New York : Knopf 1925
A Handbook of Short Story Writing Fiction , Non Fiction Adult New York : A.A. Knopf 1924
Stories From the Midland, collection of present-day writing
- Editor 		Non Fiction , Short Stories Adult New York : McGraw Hill 1924
Druida
- Novel of Midwestern Farm Life with seven woodcuts by Wilfred Jones. 		Fiction Adult New York : A.A. Knopf 1923

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Master of Science (M. S.)in surgery University of Michigan Ann Arbor , MI 1948

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Department of English Visiting Professor University of Iowa Iowa City 1962 -1970
Literary critic and host "Of Men and Books" Radio Program (CBS) 1937 -1944
Regional Director WPA Writer's Project 1937 -1940
Professor of Medill School of Journalism Northwestern University Evanston 1936
Instructor University of Notre Dame and Northwestern University Southbend 1930 -1936
Instructor University of Pittsburgh Pittsburg 1923
- Bought 1,400 acres, which he worked as a farm and built large stone house Near Glennie , MI 1919
Professor University of Iowa Iowa City 1917 -1930
Founder and Editor
- Founded journal devoted to Midwestern writing but folded during the Depression due to lack of funds 		Midland Magazine 1915 -1933
Teacher Prescott 1911 -1913

Other Resources:

MeLCat Links:
http://elibrary.mel.org/search~S15?/aFrederick%2C+John+T/afrederick+john+t/1%2C2%2C29%2CB/exact&FF=afrederick+john+t+john+towner+1893+1975&1%2C28%2C

http://uipress.lib.uiowa.edu/bdi/DetailsPage.aspx?id=126

http://themidland.org/

http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/bai/bush.htm

http://collguides.lib.uiowa.edu/?MSC0513

Other Comments:

Among the resources listed above are biographies followed by a link to his papers.

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