Thomas B. Costain (1885–1965)
Autore di The Silver Chalice
Sull'Autore
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Serie
Opere di Thomas B. Costain
More Stories to Remember 3 copie
The Canadian History series: The white and the gold; the French regime in Canada, Century of Conflict, The Path of… (1954) 2 copie
For My Great Folly (abridged) — Autore — 1 copia
The Magnificent Century a History of the Plantagenets; The Three Edwards; The Last Plantangenets (1962) — Autore — 1 copia
Opere correlate
Century of conflict;: The struggle between the French and British in colonial America (Canadian history series) (1900) — A cura di — 86 copie
The path of destiny; Canada from the British conquest to home rule, 1763-1850 (1957) — A cura di — 75 copie
Cavalcade of the North: An Entertaining Collection of Distinguished Writing by Canadian Authors (1958) — Introduzione; Introduction Contributor — 68 copie
Best-in-Books The Silver Chalice; A King's Story; A Man Called Peter; The Day Chist Died; Kids Say the Darndest Things;… (1960) — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Best-in-Books Volume 33: Our Man in Havana; Heaven in Your Hand; The Three Edwards; Snoopy; And a Right Good Crew (1959) 3 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Costain, Thomas Bertram
- Data di nascita
- 1885-05-08
- Data di morte
- 1965-10-08
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Farringdon Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Canada (birth)
USA (naturalized) - Luogo di nascita
- Brantford, Ontario, Canada
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa della morte
- heart attack
- Luogo di residenza
- Brantford, Ontario, Canada
New York, New York, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Istruzione
- Brantford Collegiate Institute
- Attività lavorative
- newspaper editor
historian
university professor
historical novelist
journalist - Relazioni
- Haycraft, Molly Costain (daughter)
- Organizzazioni
- Maclean's
The Saturday Evening Post - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Doctor of Letters, University of Western Ontario
Gold medallion, Canadian Club of New York - Breve biografia
- Thomas B. Costain
was born
in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, and attended high school at the Brantford Collegiate Institute. Before graduating from high school, he had already written four novels, none of which were accepted for publication.
In 1902, he had his first literary success when the Brantford Courier published a mystery story of his, and he became a reporter at the paper at age 17. He later was an editor at the Guelph Daily Mercury and the Maclean Publishing Group. In 1914, he became a staff writer for, and later editor of, Maclean's Magazine. His work there brought him to the attention of The Saturday Evening Post in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he served as fiction editor for 14 years.
In 1920, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He worked for Doubleday Books as an editor from 1939 to 1946. He also was the head of 20th Century Fox’s story development department from 1934 to 1942. Costain was 57 years old when he published his first historical novel, For My Great Folly (1942), about the 17th-century rivalry between England and Spain. It was an immediate bestseller, and Costain was soon able to retire from Doubleday to become a full-time writer. In the years that followed, he published books almost annually, and his vivid and carefully researched stories continued to be hits with the public. The best-known of his works are The Black Rose (1945), which was adapted into a film starring Tyrone Power, and The Silver Chalice (1952), also made into a film. In addition, Costain utilized his outstanding abilities to make history compelling to produce well-received nonfiction histories, including a four-volume series on the English Plantagenet dynasty, The Conquering Family (1949), The Magnificent Century (1951), The Three Edwards (1958), and The Last Plantagenets (1962). Costain married Ida Randolph Spragge in 1910, and the couple had two children, one of whom was Molly Costain Haycraft, who also became an historical novelist.
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- Utenti
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
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- Recensioni
- 110
- ISBN
- 128
- Lingue
- 8
- Preferito da
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