Authors and Illustrators Database

Harold Titus

Born: 02/20/1888  Traverse City, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Died: 10/09/1967
Parents: Dorr B. and F. Josephine Smith Titus
Spouse: Beth Benedict
Children: Elizabeth; John
Address(es):
Burial:
Oakwood Cemetery
Traverse City, MI

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
The Land Nobody Wanted: The Story of Michigan's Public Domain
- Special Bulletin: 332 		Non Fiction, Michigan Adult East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State College, Agricultural Experiment Station, Section of Conservation 1945
Michigan : A Guide to the Wolverine State
- Editor 		Non Fiction Adult The Works Project Administration 1941
Black Feather
- Historical romance at Mackinac 		Historical Fiction, Michigan, Romance Adult Philadelphia : Macrae-Smith 1936
The Man from Yonder
- Upper Peninsula Lumbering novel 		Fiction, Michigan Adult New York : A. L. Burt Company 1934
Code of the North Fiction, Michigan Adult New York : Hillman Periodicals 1933
Flame in the Forest Fiction, Michigan Adult Philadelphia, Macrae Smith company 1933
Below Zero, a romance of the north woods Fiction, Humor, Romance Adult Philadelphia, Macrae Smith company 1932
Smoke Chaser
- Short story about a student of forestry at Ann Arbor aids a girl trying to operate her deceased father's logging empire 		Fiction, Michigan, Short Stories Adult American Magazine 1924
Spindrift : A Novel of the Great Lakes
- Skipper of yacht is murdered and man is sent to prison at Marquette, but he escapes and finds real murderer and romance 		Fiction, Michigan Adult Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page & company 1924
The Beloved Pawn
- Echos Jesse James Strang's career but takes place on Garden Island and the ruler is King Norman Eldred 		Fiction Adult Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page 1923
"Timber"
- Several editions and movie version "Hearts Aflame" 		Fiction, Michigan Adult Boston ; Small, Maynard & Company 1922
The Last Straw Fiction Adult Boston ; Small, Maynard & Company 1920
Bruce of the Circle A Fiction Adult Boston ; Small, Maynard & Company 1918
I Conquered Fiction, Western Adult New York : A.L. Burt 1916
Other writings:
- Articles and stories in Ladies' Home Journal, Red Book, Pictorial Review, Metropolitan, Field and Stream, Saturday Evening Post, Collier's Weekly, others. Wrote hundreds of short stories and some were made into movies
What is the aim or goal of your writing: Michigan in Literature says, "A French Canadian logger tells the first Paul Bunyan story ever to appear in a book--Titus spells the name Paul Bunion." This is in his book Timber .

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Juris Doctor (J.D.) Thomas M. Cooley Law School Lansing, MI 1976

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Chairman
- Served for several years, after being named by Governor Green 		Michigan Conservation Commission 1927-1949
Fruit grower Grand Traverse County, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1911
Reporter Detroit News Detroit, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent 1907-1910
Ordnance Sergeant U.S. Army; lllth Ordnance Depot Company World War I
Conservation Editor
- Wrote as the "Old Warden" promoting conservation in the 1930s and into the 40s. 		Field and Stream

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