Authors and Illustrators Database

John Bartlow Martin

Born: 08/04/1915  HamiltonCounty
Died: 01/03/1987
Parents: John W. Martin, Laura Martin
Spouse: Frances
Children: Cynthia, Daniel, John

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
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:
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Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Grand Valley State University Allendale, MI 1968-1973

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
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

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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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