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The Washington Post Book Club's October PickOne of Washington Independent Review of Book's Favorite Books of 2016“A grandson of writer MacKinlay Kantor unravels the tangles of his grandfather's life and finds many of those same threads (the good, the bad, the ugly) in his own...A compelling account, suffused with both sympathy and sharpness, of a writer who's mostly forgotten and of a grandson who's grateful.”—Kirkus ReviewsAn award-winning veteran of The Washington Post and The Miami Herald, Tom Shroder has made a career of investigative journalism and human-interest stories, from those of children who claim to have memories of past lives, in his book Old Souls, to that of a former Marine suffering from debilitating PTSD and his doctor pioneering a successful psychedelic drug treat­ment in Acid Test. Shroder's most fascinating subject, however, comes from within his own family: his grandfather MacKinlay Kantor was the world-famous author of Andersonville, the seminal novel about the Civil War. As a child, Shroder was in awe of his grandfather's larger-than-life character. Kantor's friends included Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sandburg, Gregory Peck, and James Cagney. He was an early men

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Author

Tom Shroder

Publisher

New York: Blue Rider Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780698194267

Category

biography

Subjects

Memoir, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.44 / 5 (24 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14