John
Bartlow
Martin
Born:
08/04/1915
HamiltonCounty
Died: 01/03/1987
Parents: John W. Martin, Laura Martin
Spouse: Frances
Children: Cynthia, Daniel, John
Died: 01/03/1987
Parents: John W. Martin, Laura Martin
Spouse: Frances
Children: Cynthia, Daniel, John
Writings
Image | Title | Genre | Audience | Publisher | Date |
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t seems like only yesterday : memoirs of writing, presidential politics, and the diplomatic life - Autobiography |
Biography | Adult | New York : W. Morrow | 1986 | |
The Televising of Heller, a novel | Fiction | Adult | Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday | 1980 | |
Adlai Stevenson of Illinois : the life of Adlai E. Stevenson ( 2 Vols.) | Biography | Adult | Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday | 1976-1977 | |
Overtaken by Events; the Dominican crisis from the fall of Trujillo to the civil war. | History | Adult | New York, Doubleday | 1966 | |
Jimmy Hoffa's Hot - Originally published in the Saturday evening post under the title ?The struggle to get Hoffa. |
Non Fiction, Michigan | Adult | Greenwich, Conn., Fawcett Publications | 1959 | |
The Pane of Glass | Non Fiction | Adult | New York, Harper | 1959 | |
Break Down the Walls; American prisons: present, past, and future. - Michigan State Prison. |
Michigan | Adult | New York, Ballantine Books | 1954 | |
Butcher's Dozen, and other murders. | Non Fiction | Adult | New York, Harper | 1950 | |
Indiana, an Interpretation - (Publication Years: 1947, 1972) |
Non Fiction, History | Adult | New York, A.A. Knopf | 1947 | |
Call It North Country: the story of upper Michigan - In the foreword to the 2nd edition of Call it North Country, Martin relates that it was written in his twenties and that the caretaker at the camp where he went on his honeymoon to Michiganne, Michigan introduced him to people. He and his wife purchased land for Upper Peninsula summer home. (Publication Years: 1944, 1987) |
Michigan History | Adult | New York, A.A.Knopf | 1944 | |
Other writings: - In Harper's, Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, True Detective, Reader's Digest, Outdoor Life, and Esquire |
Non Fiction | Adult |
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Skills:
Author
Education:
Degree | Institution | Location | Date |
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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) | Grand Valley State University | Allendale, MI | 1968-1973 |
Career:
Position | Organization | Location | Date |
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Visiting Fellow | Princeton University | Princeton | 1966-1967 |
Senior Fellow | Wesleyan University | Middletown | 1964-1965 |
Consultant, Special Envoy - Caribbean Affairs |
U.S. Ambassador | Dominican Republic | 1961-1965 |
Staff member - Adlai Stevenson, and for John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey (1952-1956, later) |
1952 | ||
Military service | U. S. Army | 1944-1946 | |
Freelance Writer - (1938-1944, 1946-1961) |
1938-1961 | ||
Rewrite man and Reporter | Indianapolis Times | Indianapolis | 1937-1938 |
Reporter | Associated Press | 1933-1934 | |
Board of Directors | Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis | Chicago | |
Professor(10 years) | Northwestern University | Evanston |
Other Resources:
Other Comments:
Although not born in Michigan, Mr. Martin is included in this database because of his early book on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and because he did much of his writing in his Michigan summer home.
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