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John Stewart Carter

Born: March 26, 1912 in Chicago, Illinois
Died: October 1965

Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Carter was born in Chicago and lived most of his life in Oak Park.

Biography: John Stewart Carter was an author who published two short stories, several poems and a successful novel titled ''Full Fathom Five''. When Carter was a boy the Hemingway family were neighbors and his father was a colleague of Dr. Hemingway. Influenced by the life of Ernest Hemingway, both John Stewart Carter and his brother Albert Howard Carter aspired to become authors. John Stewart Carter was a poet, author and a professor of English at Chicago Teachers College.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

John Stewart Carter on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=john+stewart+carter


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