Andersonville (novel)
1955 novel by MacKinlay Kantor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville prison during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year.
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Author | MacKinlay Kantor |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Historical novel |
Publisher | Penguin Books |
Publication date | October 27, 1955[1] |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
ISBN | 0-452-26956-3 |
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Kantor's novel was not the basis for a 1996 John Frankenheimer film Andersonville. Although Kantor sold the motion picture rights of his novel to one of the major Hollywood studios in the 1950s, it was never produced. Kantor's novel and the movie of the same name are two separate properties.