"Here is the perpetual variety of small town Oklahoma characters, incidents, changes; the self-confidence of an American boyhood; in honest, winning revelation.""-Kirkus Reviews"
Here is the perpetual variety of small town Oklahoma characters, incidents, changes; the self-confidence of an American boyhood; in honest, winning revelation.""-Kirkus Reviews
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marquis James was a native of Enid, OK. James was a World War I veteran and instrumental in the founding of the New Yorker magazine. He was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes for biography: in 1930 for The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston, and in 1938 for Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President.