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John P. Marquand (born November 10, 1893, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.—died July 16, 1960, Newburyport, Massachusetts) was an American novelist who recorded the shifting patterns of middle- and upper-class American society in the mid-20th century. Marquand grew up in New York City and suburban Rye in comfortable circumstances until his father ...
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John Phillips Marquand, leading American writer of the twentieth century, was born on November 10, 1893, to Philip and Margaret Fuller Marquand, both descendants of old New England families. Although he was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and lived in Rye, New York, until he was fourteen, Marquand considered himself a New Englander.
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Biography. John Phillips Marquand, leading American writer of the twentieth century, was born on November 10, 1893, to Philip and Margaret Fuller Marquand, both descendants of old New England families. Although he was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and lived in Rye, New York, until he was fourteen, Marquand considered himself a New Englander.
John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for The Late George Apley in 1938. One of his abiding themes was the confining nature of life in America's ...
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John Phillips Marquand was born in 1893, a relative of such respected New Englanders as Margaret Fuller and Edward Everett Hale. When his father lost his money in the panic of 1907 and had to ...
views 2,718,924 updated. John Phillips Marquand (mär´kwänd), 1893–1960, American novelist, b. Wilmington, Del., grad. Harvard, 1915. Most of Marquand's gently satirical novels examine life among the rich and socially prominent of New England. Often they concern people too hidebound by money or tradition to change their lives for the better.
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JOHN PHILLIPS MARQUAND. John P. Marquand is an unusual figure in contemporary letters. His career has developed in reverse. Although he had been writing continuously and publishing regularly since 1921, his name was among the horde of authors given pictorial and biographical ment in Living Authors (1931) and Authors Today and Yesterday (1933).
