Authors and Illustrators Database

John Braitwaite (Braithwaite ?) Allan Seager

Born: 02/05/1906  Adrian, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
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."

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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.) University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 1976

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, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 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, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1935-1963
Novelist, Short story writer, translator, and biographer 1933-1968

Other Resources:

MeLCat Links:
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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.

Last Modified On: 6/25/2018 12:00:00 AM