Conrad Richter Summary

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 o... Read more

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... Read more

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 i... Read more

Critical Essay by Eda Lou Walton "Early Americana" for [a] title names exactly the author's particular gift. All based on old tales collected from pioneers and from the children ... Read more

Critical Essay by Louis Bromfield For some years now we have had among us a top-flight writer working quietly on the story of one family and in a larger sense on the story of this nation's fro... Read more

Critical Essay by Orville Prescott [This essay originally appeared as a series of reviews in The New York Times between 1942 and 1950.] During the eleven years 1940 through 1950 Conrad Richter wro... Read more

Critical Essay by John T. Flanagan [Although Richter's] historical trilogy is his most distinguished work to date, he is limited neither by one region nor by one fictional type. The three nove... Read more

Critical Essay by George R. Clay Although the books of Conrad Richter tend to dwell on the past, there is a deceptive timeliness about much of this author's fiction, a tone of what might be ca... Read more

Critical Essay by Marvin J. Lahood When the noted historian Frederick Jackson Turner stated in an address in 1893 that the settlement of the West explained American development, he focused attention ... Read more

Critical Essay by Thomas P. Mcdonnell If you live with dreadful awareness of man's perplexity in the twentieth century …, then you will have a very disconcerting time trying to penetrat... Read more

Critical Essay by Granville Hicks [Richter's work] is all of a piece, for his one theme has been the American past. His aim, he has said, has been "not to write historical novels but to... Read more

Critical Essay by Dawn Wilson While he was working on [his] philosophical essays, [Conrad Richter] was also writing short stories which illustrated his theories. Collected in a volume called Brothers... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert F. Gish Followers of Conrad Richter and his writings about the American frontier should revel in the eight short stories in this collection—all dealing, as the titular... Read more

Critical Essay by Barbara Meldrum Conrad Richter's three novels of the Southwest provide us with provocative portraits of women on the frontier and at the same time suggest a feminine perspect... Read more

Critical Essay by Rosamond Lehmann Readers whose habit it is to turn to the last page after a glance at the first will get a misleading impression of Mr. Richter. They will see, with dismay, these wo... Read more

Critical Essay by Howard Fast Each new book by Conrad Richter is a treat. In a time of loose writing, he works with meticulous craftsmanship and an uncanny knowledge of period. In that way, in ... Read more

Critical Essay by Louis Bromfield I doubt that any one writing today in this country is closer in understanding and treatment of its pioneer life than Conrad Richter. He has not only given the fronti... Read more

In Conrad Richter's work, The Light In The Forest, the main focus are two main characters, True Son, or John Cameron Butler, and Del Hardy. Richter's omniscient narrator presents each of their... Read more