Conrad Richter Analysis

“One of the greatest of modern humanist is Conrad Richter, whose stories of American backgrounds have been appearing for the past ten years”, says Bruce Sutherland a literary critic. Another critic Dayton Kohler says of Richter, the few realistic and smart novels about the west are ignored by criticism, which now takes the western story for granted. Writers of real talent such as Richter have passed unnoticed. Conrad Richter is one of America’s best all-time western writers. Richter with his western style has won many awards for his writing; in 1961, he won the National Book Award for, The Water of Kronos and in 1951 won the Pulitzer Prize for his work of The Town (Martine). Jean Stine a literary critic and editor from the CLC states, Richter is regarded as one of the best novelist to have written about the frontier, relying on oral history, newspaper accounts, letters, and diaries. All of this making Richter one of the best frontier and western novelists (Stine).
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