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American author and lawyer, Pulitzer Prize laureate.
Works
Novels
- The Cruise of the Dry Dock (1917) (transcription project)
- Birthright (1921) — First published as a serial in Century Magazine in 1921, then as a novel in 1922, later adapted into a film under the same title in 1924 and 1939. The 1924 film is lost; only part of the 1939 remains, the remaining portion was restored under the supervision of the Library of Congress.
- The Web of the Sun (1922)
- Fombombo (1923)
- Red Sand (1924)
- Teeftallow (1926)
- Bright Metal (1928)
- East is East (1922)
- Strange Moon (1929)
- Backwater (1930)
- The Forge (1931)
- The Store (1932), winner of the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
- Unfinished Cathedral (1933)
- The Sound Wagon (1935)
- These Bars of Flesh (1938)
- "Apology To Florence", June 1934, an article in Wings Magazine.
- Coauthor (with David Wallace) of Rope, a dramatization of Teeftallow, produced on Broadway (1928)
Short stories and collections
- The Green Splotches (1920)
- Clues of the Caribbees: Being Certain Criminal Investigations of Henry Poggioli, Ph. D. (1929)
- Mogglesby (1930) – Copyrighted in the United States until 2026
- Best Dr. Poggioli Detective Stories (Dover, 1975)
- Dr. Poggioli: Criminologist (Crippen & Landru, 2004)
- Web of the Sun (2012) - also contains "The Green Splotches"
Individual short stories
- "The Passing of the St. Louis Bearcat" (1919 Dec, Everybody's) (ss)
- "What a Young Man Should Know" (1921 Jan, Everybody's) (ss)
- "The Magnificent Pompalone" (1921 Dec, Everybody's) (ss)
- "The Return of Sledger" (1923 Dec, Everybody's) (ss)
- "The Pothunter" (1925 Sept 07, Popular) (ss)
- "Cricket" (1925 Oct 10 Adventure) (novelette)
Poetry
- Design on Darkness
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