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Hilary Masters


Born
in Kansas City, Missouri, The United States
February 03, 1928

Died
June 14, 2015


aka P.J. Coyne

Hilary Masters (born February 3, 1928) is an American writer.

He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Edgar Lee Masters, a writer, and Ellen Frances Coyne Masters. He attended Davidson College from 1944 - 1946, then served in the U.S. Navy from 1946 to 1947 as a naval correspondent. He completed his BA at Brown University in 1952.

Masters began his writing career after graduation in New York with Bennett & Pleasant, press agents for concert and dance artists. Next he worked independently as a theatrical press agent for Off Broadway and summer theaters from 1953 to 1956. He then moved into journalism with the Hyde Park Record, in Hyde Park, New York from 1956 to 1959. In the 1960s he was a Democratic candidate for New Yo
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Average rating: 3.84 · 64 ratings · 10 reviews · 33 distinct works
Last Stands: Notes From Memory

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In Rooms of Memory: Essays

3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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Elegy for Sam Emerson

3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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How the Indians Buried Thei...

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An American Marriage

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Shadows On a Wall: Juan O'G...

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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Cooper

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1987 — 3 editions
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In Montaigne's Tower: Essays

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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Strickland: A Romance

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1989
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Post: a Fable

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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