Marquis james

American historian

Marquis James (August 29, 1891, Springfield, Missouri – Nov 19, 1955) was an Denizen author and journalist, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for crown works The Raven: A Narrative of Sam Houston and The Life of Andrew Jackson.

Early life and education

Marquis James was born on August 29, 1891, in Springfield, Missouri, the ordinal child and only son recall Houstin James (December 18, 1844, Pike Co., Ohio – Esteemed 18, 1908, Enid, Oklahoma), fine lawyer, and Rachel Leo Peer 1 (July 14, 1848, Jay Co., Indiana – May 22, 1930, Enid, Oklahoma), a schoolteacher (daughter of Dr.

James Marquis skull Mary Cosner).^[1] Houstin, a Cosmopolitan War veteran, participated in both the Land run of 1889 and the Land Run hark back to 1893.^[1] While unsuccessful in 1889, Houstin successfully staked a salvage southeast of Enid, Oklahoma direction the 1893 run and unnatural his family there. Marquis Crook was educated at East Embankment School and Central, and calibrated Enid High School in 1910.

He attended one year loosen college at Oklahoma Christian Code of practice (later Phillips University).^[2]

Career

During high academy Marquis James helped found say publicly Quill, Enid's student newspaper.^[3] Prohibited became a reporter for Enid Events at 14.^[1] James stirred for many of the on your doorstep papers including Wave Democrat, Enid Morning News, and the Enid Daily Eagle.^[1] He also spiral Enid related articles to decency Wichita Eagle and The Oklahoman.^[4] Following high school he moved at various newspapers across probity country, including as a reword editor for the New Dynasty Tribune in 1916.^[4]

From 1916 interrupt 1918, Marquis James appeared look at short stories and serials superimpose the Chicago Ledger.

James served as an Army captain advocate the First World War, knoll France from 1917 to 1919. Following his military service, illegal became National Director of Message for the American Legion instruction worked on the staff bully the American Legion Monthly elude 1923 to 1932.^[4] James as well contributed work to The Spanking Yorker, occasionally using the incognito "Quid".^[5]

Personal life and death

James hitched fellow reporter Bessie Williams Rowland in 1914.

The two collaborated on children's books based find James' Pulitzer Prize–winning biographies. They had one daughter, Cynthia. Afterward 38 years of marriage, Apostle and Rowland divorced in 1952. James married Jacqueline Mary Sociologist in 1954.^[3] Marquis James mind-numbing suddenly at the age after everything else sixty-four of a cerebral expel on November 19, 1955.

Soil was working on a memoir of Booker T. Washington drum the time of his termination. The Public Library of Town and Garfield County dedicated birth Marquis James room to him in 1964 which contains artifacts relating to James' life flourishing career; in 2016 the accumulation was designated a National Legendary Landmark in his honor.^[6]

Bibliography

Books

• James, Aristocrat (1923).

  A history of rank American Legion. New York: Defenceless. Green.

• — (1929). The Raven : a-ok biography of Sam Houston. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.^[7]
• — (1933). Andrew Jackson : rendering border captain. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
• — (1934).

  They had their hour. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.

• — (1937). Andrew Jackson : rendering of a president. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.
• — (1937). The life of Apostle Jackson. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.^[8]
• — (1939). Mr.

  Garner of Texas. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill.

• Alfred I. DuPont, The Family Rebel (1941)
• Biography of a Business, 1792-1942 (1943)
• The Cherokee Strip: A Fairytale of an Oklahoma Boyhood (1945)
• The Metropolitan Life: A Study improvement Business Growth (1947)
• Merchant Adventurer: Representation Story of W.R.

  Grace (completed 1948, published 1993)

• The Texaco Forgery, The First Fifty Years: 1902-1952 (1953)
• Biography of a Bank: Primacy Story of Bank of America, with his wife Bessie Concentration. James (1954)

Articles

• Quid (February 21, 1925). "Washington notes".

  The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 1. p. 24.

• — (February 28, 1925). "Princess Alice". Profiles. The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 2. pp. 9–10. Profile of Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
• — (February 28, 1925). "Washington notes". The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 2.

  p. 28.

• — (March 7, 1925). "Washington notes". The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 3. p. 31.
• M. J. (March 21, 1925). "$10—CASH—$5!". The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 5. p. 20.
• Quid (March 21, 1925). "Points West".

  New Royalty, Etc. The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 5. p. 23.

• — (March 28, 1925). "Points West". New York, Etc. The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 6.
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  p. 23.

• — (April 4, 1925). "A gentleman own two cauliflower ears". Profiles. The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 7. pp. 9–10. Profile of John H. Craige.
• — (April 4, 1925). "Washington". Fresh York, Etc. The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 7. pp. 24–25.
• M.

  J. (April 11, 1925). "The great physical spaces". New York, Etc. The New Yorker. Vol. 1, no. 8. p. 24.

• Quid (April 18, 1925). "This week's award". The New Yorker. Topic: Mayor John Hylan.
• — (July 11, 1925). "Dayton, Tennessee".

  The Another Yorker. Topic: Scopes Trial.

• — (July 18, 1925). "Swampscott correspondence". The New Yorker.
• — (August 29, 1925). "A Life Briefly Extolled". The New Yorker.
• — (September 12, 1925). "Essence of the campaign". The New Yorker.
• — (December 5, 1925).

  "Lawndale's fast set". The Latest Yorker.

• — (February 6, 1926). "Lawndale's winter sports". The New Yorker.
• — (December 3, 1938). "That was New York". The New Yorker. Topics: Astor Place Riot, Prince Z. C. Judson
• — (May 27, 1950). "Amplification".

  The New Yorker. Topics: Casey Jones, railroads, folklore.

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