Thomas B. Costain (1885–1965)
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Œuvres de Thomas B. Costain
Blanc et or : Le régime français au Canada. eThe White and the golde. Thomas B. Costain. Traduit par… (1954) 215 exemplaires
More Stories to Remember 3 exemplaires
The Canadian History series: The white and the gold; the French regime in Canada, Century of Conflict, The Path of… (1954) 2 exemplaires
The three Edwards Part of The Pageant of England 1 exemplaire
For My Great Folly (abridged) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Thomas Costain 1885-1965nbio/works 1 exemplaire
More Stories to Remember 1 exemplaire
The Magnificent Century a History of the Plantagenets; The Three Edwards; The Last Plantangenets (1962) — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Century of conflict;: The struggle between the French and British in colonial America (Canadian history series) (1900) — Directeur de publication — 87 exemplaires
The path of destiny; Canada from the British conquest to home rule, 1763-1850 (1957) — Directeur de publication — 76 exemplaires
Cavalcade of the North: An Entertaining Collection of Distinguished Writing by Canadian Authors (1958) — Introduction; Introduction Contributor — 68 exemplaires
Best-in-Books The Silver Chalice; A King's Story; A Man Called Peter; The Day Chist Died; Kids Say the Darndest Things;… (1960) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Best-in-Books Volume 33: Our Man in Havana; Heaven in Your Hand; The Three Edwards; Snoopy; And a Right Good Crew (1959) 3 exemplaires
Best-in-Books: The Royal Box / Our National Parks / Jamaica Inn / That Reminds Me / The White and the Gold / Rube… (1955) — Auteur — 2 exemplaires
Best in Books, Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Parliament, My Dear Mr. Churchill, The Third Side of the Coin, and The Inland Sea — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Costain, Thomas Bertram
- Date de naissance
- 1885-05-08
- Date de décès
- 1965-10-08
- Lieu de sépulture
- Farringdon Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario, Canada
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Canada (birth)
USA (naturalized) - Lieu de naissance
- Brantford, Ontario, Canada
- Lieu du décès
- New York, New York, USA
- Cause du décès
- heart attack
- Lieux de résidence
- Brantford, Ontario, Canada
New York, New York, USA
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Études
- Brantford Collegiate Institute
- Professions
- newspaper editor
historian
university professor
historical novelist
journalist - Relations
- Haycraft, Molly Costain (daughter)
- Organisations
- Maclean's
The Saturday Evening Post - Prix et distinctions
- Doctor of Letters, University of Western Ontario
Gold medallion, Canadian Club of New York - Courte biographie
- Thomas B. Costain
was born
in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, and attended high school at the Brantford Collegiate Institute. Before graduating from high school, he had already written four novels, none of which were accepted for publication.
In 1902, he had his first literary success when the Brantford Courier published a mystery story of his, and he became a reporter at the paper at age 17. He later was an editor at the Guelph Daily Mercury and the Maclean Publishing Group. In 1914, he became a staff writer for, and later editor of, Maclean's Magazine. His work there brought him to the attention of The Saturday Evening Post in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he served as fiction editor for 14 years.
In 1920, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He worked for Doubleday Books as an editor from 1939 to 1946. He also was the head of 20th Century Fox’s story development department from 1934 to 1942. Costain was 57 years old when he published his first historical novel, For My Great Folly (1942), about the 17th-century rivalry between England and Spain. It was an immediate bestseller, and Costain was soon able to retire from Doubleday to become a full-time writer. In the years that followed, he published books almost annually, and his vivid and carefully researched stories continued to be hits with the public. The best-known of his works are The Black Rose (1945), which was adapted into a film starring Tyrone Power, and The Silver Chalice (1952), also made into a film. In addition, Costain utilized his outstanding abilities to make history compelling to produce well-received nonfiction histories, including a four-volume series on the English Plantagenet dynasty, The Conquering Family (1949), The Magnificent Century (1951), The Three Edwards (1958), and The Last Plantagenets (1962). Costain married Ida Randolph Spragge in 1910, and the couple had two children, one of whom was Molly Costain Haycraft, who also became an historical novelist.
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- Œuvres
- 47
- Aussi par
- 14
- Membres
- 8,057
- Popularité
- #3,006
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 115
- ISBN
- 128
- Langues
- 8
- Favoris
- 13
The Mississippi Bubble talks about how France got a new bank ;The Mississippi Company, and offered shares in the company. Stock prices rose. And fell.
The other part of the story talks about the starting of New Orleans.
Good for illustrating the importance of paper money backed by good.