Walter D. Edmonds

Walter "Wat" Dumaux Edmonds (July 15, 1903 – January 24, 1998) na he be American writer best known for historical novels. One of dem, Drums Along the Mohawk (1936), na dem adapt as a Technicolor feature film insyd 1939, John Ford direct den star Henry Fonda den Claudette Colbert.

Life

Na dem born Edmonds insyd Boonville, New York. Insyd 1919 he enter The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) insyd Wallingford, Connecticut. Originally na he dey intend make he study chemical engineering, he cam turn more interested insyd writing den work as managing editor of de Choate ‘’Literary Magazine‘’. He graduate insyd 1926 from Harvard, wer he edit ‘’The Harvard Advocate‘’, wey wer he study plus Charles Townsend Copeland. He marry Eleanor Stetson insyd 1930.

Insyd 1929, he publish ein first novel, ‘’Rome Haul‘’, a work about de Erie Canal. Na dem adapt de novel for de 1934 play ‘’The Farmer Takes a Wife‘’ den de 1935 film of de same name.

Wen Eleanor die insyd 1956, Walter marry Katherine Howe Baker Carr, wey die insyd 1989. Walter Edmonds die insyd Concord, Massachusetts, insyd 1998.

Work

Novels

• Rome Haul (1929) *
• The Big Barn (1930)
• Erie Water (1933)
• Drums Along the Mohawk (1936) *
• Chad Hanna (1940) *
• Young Ames (1942) *
• The Wedding Journey (1947)
• The Boyds of Black River (1953)
• Wolf Hunt (1970)

Juvenile novels

• The Matchlock Gun (1941)
• Tom Whipple (1942)
• Two Logs Crossing: John Haskell's Story (1943)
• Cadmus Henry (1949)
• Time to Go House (1969)
• Bert Breen's Barn (1975)

Autobiographical novel

• The South African Quirt (1985)

Short story collections

• Mostly Canallers (1934) *
• In the Hands of the Senecas (1947)
• Seven American Stories (1970)
• The Night Raider and Other Stories (1980)

Non-fiction

• They Fought with What They Had: The Story of the Army Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific, 1941-1942 (1951)
• The Musket and the Cross: The Struggle of France and England for North America (1968)
• Tales My Father Never Told (1995)

* Novels Rome Haul, Drums Along the Mohawk, Chad Hanna, Young Ames den de short story collection Mostly Canallers na dem publish as Armed Services Editions during WWII.

External links

• Choate Rosemary Hall obituary
• Remembrance from UticaOD.com
• Edmonds papers at Harvard
• Walter D. Edmonds at Library of Congress, with 61 library catalog records