Glendon Swarthout
Glendon Swarthout was born in Pinckney, Michigan, United States on April 8th, 1918 and is the Novelist. At the age of 74, Glendon Swarthout biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Glendon Fred Swarthout (October 8, 1918, near Pinckney, Michigan) was an American writer and novelist, and several of his books were turned into films.
Where the Boys Are and The Shooter, which was John Wayne's last work, are perhaps the best known.
Early life
Glendon Swarthout was Fred and Lila (Chubb) Swarthout's only child, a banker, and a homemaker. Swarthout is a Dutch name; his mother's maiden name was from Yorkshire. Overall, Swarthout did well in school, especially in English. He was a champion of the Michigan high school debate.
He floundered in math, however, and only a generous lady geometry teacher gave him a D, so he could graduate from Lowell, Michigan High School. For at 6 foot, 99 pounds, he took accordion lessons and spent his free time with novels. He spent the summer of his junior year playing his instrument in Charlevoix, on Lake Michigan, with Jerry Schroeder and his Michigan State College Orchestra.
He went to Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan in 1935 after graduating. He became more interested in music, including founding and singing lead for a four-piece band that competed for hops and three summers at the Pantlind Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan's biggest hotel outside of Detroit.
At the University of Glendon's major in English, he pledged Chi Phi, and dated Kathryn Vaughn, who was 13 and she 12, at her family's cottage on Duck Lake outside of Albion, Michigan. They were married in Detroit on December 28, 1940, after both graduated from UM and Swarthout was writing advertisement copy for Cadillac and Dow Chemical at the MacManus, John and Adams advertising firm.
Awards
- O. Henry Prize short story (nomination), 1960
- National Society of Arts and Letters gold medal, 1972
- Spur Award, Best Western Novel of 1975, The Shootist, Western Writers of America
- Spur Award, Best Western Novel of 1988, The Homesman, Western Writers of America
- Wrangler Award, Best Western Novel of 1988, The Homesman, Western Heritage Association
- Owen Wister Award for Lifetime Achievement, Western Writers of America, 1991
- Induction into the Western Writers Hall of Fame in the library of the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody, Wyoming, 2008