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Biography

Name: Conrad Michael Richter
Birth Date: October 13, 1890
Death Date: October 18, 1968
Place of Birth: Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Conrad Michael Richter
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Conrad Michael Richter (1890-1968), American novelist and short-story writer, depicted the nation's early frontier life and westward expansion. His works, based on his own adventures and research into American folklore, protest man's destruction of his...
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Biography of Conrad (Michael) Richter
3,684 words, approx. 12 pages
Conrad Richter may not be a writer of the first rank, but his work has moments of splendor and mythic power. His is a vision of human growth and decency, with work, perseverance, and virtue at its core. Richter's America and the things he prized, those...
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Biography of Conrad (Michael) Richter
3,290 words, approx. 11 pages
Conrad Michael Richter, recipient of a 1961 National Book Award for The Waters of Kronos, a 1951 Pulitzer Prize for The Town, and other prizes for fiction on historical and modern subjects, was born in Pine Grove, Pennsylvania. He resided there and in...
 


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Richter, Conrad (Michael)
98 words, approx. 1 pages
(born Oct. 13, 1890, Pine Grove, Pa., U.S.—died Oct. 30, 1968, Pottsville, Pa.) U.S. short-story writer and novelist. He began as an editor and reporter and founded a juvenile magazine before moving to New Mexico in 1928. He became fascinated...
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The Light in the Forest Summary
3,648 words, approx. 12 pages
The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter Anative of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania, Conrad Richter (1890-1968) had a natural love for the woodsy countryside in which he grew up and a deep appreciation of the region's history. As both a journalist and a...
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Conrad Richter Information
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Conrad Michael Richter (October 13 1890-October 30 1968) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist whose lyrical work focuses on life along the American...


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Richter acquired.(Richter Furniture)
10/19/2006: 447 words, approx. 2 pages
By Joan Gunin Now a Robinson & Robinson unit At The Market-- LeatherTrend owner Robinson & Robinson Group has acquired upholstery specialist Richter Furniture, which last year survived an involuntary bankruptcy filing. Los Angeles-based Richter will be a division of...
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Gerhard Richter
02/01/2006: 666 words, approx. 2 pages
Gerhard Richter MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY Despite Robert Storr's brilliant effort to reclaim Gerhard Richter for human emotion in the artist's 2002 MOMA retrospective, the glassy chill of his work reasserted itself in his recent show at Marian Goodman Gallery. The exhibition fell...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Marvin J. Lahood
4,079 words, approx. 14 pages
[Always Young and Fair is] Richter's finest attempt at writing a psychological novel…. [Here] the characters in the tragedy dominate their environment, not so much as Sayward does by triumphing over it, as by being so intensely involved with each other that only the background is left for the historical setting. Lucy Markle, the lovely young daughter of Asa Markle, a wealthy mine owner, is courted by two cousins, Tom and Will Grail, as the story begins. Tom is the less fortunate economically o...
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Critical Essay by Edwin W. Gaston, Jr.
3,837 words, approx. 13 pages
The Free Man, Always Young and Fair, The Light in the Forest, and The Grandfathers seem to represent for the author a respite from the creative rigors of … [his] more ambitious works. Yet they are by no means—nor were they intended to be—light exercises to keep authorial techniques sharpened for bigger things. For this reason, then, the impression that the four represent interludes results more nearly from artistic lapses than from Richter's intention…. [Of all] Richter&#x...
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Critical Essay by Bruce Sutherland
1,922 words, approx. 6 pages
One of the greatest of … modern humanists is Conrad Richter, whose stories of American backgrounds have been appearing for the past ten years. (pp. 413-14) [An] early, spontaneous, whole-hearted interest in native backgrounds and deeds of derring-do was a part of the heritage of many American boys who came to man's estate and, alas, outgrew such boyish nonsense. But not Conrad Richter. He had known his forbears as people and not as chromos on the wall; he recognized the ties between the presen...
 
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Light in the Forest: Comparison of True Son and Del Hardy
693 words, approx. 2 pages
In spite of several differences between protagonists True Son and Del Hardy in Conrad Richter's The Light In The Forest, they have much in common. Their Caucasian race, being raised among Indians, and the values gained from this upbringing are among their similarities.
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Essay Grade: 83%
The Light in the Forest: Who Is the Better Father?
263 words, approx. 1 pages
Cuyloga is the better father figure for True Son in Conrad Richter's novel The Light in the Forest. True Son was raised by Cuyloga to be strong, bold, and morally right. And while Cuyhoga gave True Son back to the Butler family, True Son still thinks of Cuyloga, not Harry Butler, as his father.


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