Clyde Brion Davis
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Clyde Brion Davis (May 22, 1894–July 19, 1962) was an American writer and freelance journalist active from the mid-1920s to his death.
He is best known for his books The Anointed and The Great American Novel, though he wrote more than 15 books.
Life and career
Clyde Brion Davis was born in Unadilla, Nebraska, to Charles Nelson and Isabel Brion Davis on May 22, 1894. William Jennings Bryan, a legendary Nebraska politician, was a mentor and a strong fan. The Davis family lived in Missouri, where Davis attended Chillicothe and Kansas City schools a year after the boy's birth. He left school and worked in a variety of fields, including printer's apprentice, steamfitter's assistant, chimney sweep, electrician, and journalist.
Davis began his journalism career in 1916 when he worked with the Denver Times and Albuquerque Morning Journal. Since serving in the United States Army Intelligence Corps (1917-1919) during World War I, he gained further experience in journalism for the Army newspaper The Pontanezan Duckboard (1917-1919). Davis, who spent the years between 1919 and 1937 in various newspapers, including Denver Post (1920), Boeing News (1920-1934), and The Seattle Times (1931-1937).
During the 1920s, Davis' fiction collections were first published in a number of pulp magazines.
Martha Wirt, an artist and writer, married him in 1926. Their sole child, historian David Brion Davis, was born in Denver, Colorado, on February 16, 1927.
Davis lived in Hamburg, New York, in the late 1930s. Before the publication of his book The Anointed in 1937, he wrote a number of novels and short stories. The Anointed was chosen for August 1937 by the Book of the Month Club, and MGM adapted the story in 1945 to the MGM movie Adventure starring Clark Gable and Greer Garson. Davis left journalism for a career in creative writing following The Anointed's success. For the most part, he concentrated on writing novels and short stories rather than a brief period of syndicate work in Europe for PM and Knight newspapers in 1941, two months in Hollywood as a screenwriter, and two years as an associate editor for Rinehart and Company (1943-1945). Davis was given a Huntington Hartford fellowship from 1956 to 1957. More than 20 books have been published during his career, including The Great American Novel (1938) and Leo Maguire's Rebellion (1944).
The Anointed is about an educated egotist who, with God's permission, explores the globe and then finds out what it is. The Great American Novel (1938) is a comedic book about a newspaperman who aspires to write the Great American Novel but has no time.
His book The Age of Indiscretion (1950) was a retort to nostalgia for the "good old days" circa 1900. He argued that the America of the mid-20th century was not only richer and healthier than his boyhood's America, but also happier and more moral.
Davis and his family immigrated to Salisbury, Connecticut, where he served as Justice of the Peace between 1947 and 1957) until his death in Salisbury on July 19, 1962. Shadow of a Day, his last book, was published posthumously.