Thomas Sigismund Stribling (1881-1965)

Biography

Stribling was born in Clifton, Tennessee. He was a lawyer and writer and in 1933 received the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, The Store.

Bibliography

Fiction

• The Cruise of the Dry Dock (1917)
• Birthright (1922)
• Fombombo (1923)
• Red Sand (1924)
• Teeftallow (1926)
• Bright Metal (1928)
• East is East (1928)
• Strange Moon (1929)
• Backwater (1930)
• The Forge (1931)
• The Store (1932; Pulitzer Prize for Novel, 1933)
• Unfinished Cathedral (1934)
• The Sound Wagon (1935)
• These Bars of Flesh (1938)

Non-Fiction

• Laughing Stock: The Posthumous Autobiography of T.S. Stribling (1982)

Poetry

• Design on Darkness ()

Short Fiction

• Clues of the Caribbees: Being Certain Criminal Investigations of Henry Poggioli, Ph. D. (1929)
• Best Dr. Poggioli Detective Stories (1975)

Sources and Links

• Reviews of Stribling's trilogy
• Tennessee Authors

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