Joseph Hergesheimer, best known for his leisurely paced historical novels, was born in Philadelphia. Of Protestant German and Scots ancestry, he was reared in the home of his maternal grandfather, a t...
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Of Joseph Hergesheimer 's many books of fiction, seven are short-story collections. Each of the seven was well received. Several of his stories were adapted into films that became box-office hits, an...
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Joseph Hergesheimer