Harold Sinclair

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Harold Sinclair


Born
in Chicago, The United States
May 08, 1907

Died
May 24, 1966

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Harold Sinclair was born on May 8, 1907 in Chicago, Illinois. When he was about 8 years old he was sent, along with his sister, to stay with an aunt and uncle in Bloomington, Illinois. As a teenager he worked for the Western Union telegraph company. He dropped out of school, moved to Florida and later returned to Chicago and finally back home to Bloomington. He played in Jazz Clubs and followed a Bohemian lifestyle.

While working for a hardware store he wrote his first book, The Journey Home (1936). The book impressed an editor at Doubleday who offered Sinclair a four book contract.

His next three books, The American Years (1938), The Years of Growth (1940) and the Years of Illusion (1941) chronicle the history of the imaginary town of Everto
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Average rating: 4.12 · 59 ratings · 16 reviews · 31 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Horse Soldiers (Benjami...

4.13 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1956 — 12 editions
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American Years

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The Cavalryman (Benjamin Gr...

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1958
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Music out of Dixie

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1953 — 2 editions
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Years of Illusion

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1941
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Rare - Harold Sinclair HORS...

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Journey Home

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1936
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British Passenger Locomotives

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Recent Developments in Hydr...

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Years of Growth

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“Mother Nature," he murdered half aloud and grinned, "we think of her as a benevolent old lady. Maybe instead she's the wantonest kind of whore.”
Harold Sinclair, American Years

“Hundman, like tens of thousands of other Americans, had had a wordless dream and all his life had lived a little part of it-a dream which was about one quarter hope and three quarters bitter disillusionment.”
Harold Sinclair, American Years
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“Suppose each of us make up a list of, say, fifty or more books that we believe should be in the library. Then , when Robinson goes to the bookseller in Philadelphia let him start with the first of each of our chooses, then the second of each, and so on down, omitting duplicates, of course. Let him go as far as his money lasts. How does that sound."
"Vandaliz has a library," Fell said, "and so has Springfield and Edwardsville. why not Everton.”
Harold Sinclair, American Years