Happy birthday, John P. Marquand.
John P. Marquand, a Pulitzer Prize winner for
The Late George Apley (1937) and renowned in mysterydom as the creator of Japanese intelligence officer
Mr. Moto, was born today in 1893 in Wilmington, Delaware. Marquand was the nephew of transcendentalist
Margaret Fuller and a cousin of architect
Buckminster Fuller. By the time of the author's death in 1960, Mr. Moto had appeared in six
novels (
No Hero;
Thank You, Mr. Moto;
Think Fast, Mr. Moto;
Mr. Moto Is So Sorry;
Last Laugh, Mr. Moto; and
Stopover: Tokyo) and eight
films, and Marquand had produced more than a dozen highly lucrative mainstream novels and a number of short stories.
Sadly,
No Hero—Marquand's contribution to the
Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone list—is out of print.
This week's Newburyport Literary Festival in Massachusetts honors Mr. Moto creator and Pulitzer Prize winner John P. Marquand (1893–1960); Boston Globe preview here. Joanne Dobson (Agatha nominee for the Emily Dickinson-inspired Quieter Than Sleep) is one of the featured authors.
John P. Marquand, a Pulitzer Prize winner for The Late George Apley (1937) and renowned in mysterydom as the creator of Japanese intelligence officer Mr. Moto, was born today in 1893 in Wilmington, Delaware. Marquand was the nephew of transcendentalist Margaret Fuller and a cousin of architect Buckminster Fuller. By the time of the author's death in 1960, Mr. Moto had appeared in six novels (No Hero; Thank You, Mr. Moto; Think Fast, Mr. Moto; Mr. Moto Is So Sorry; Last Laugh, Mr. Moto; and Stopover: Tokyo) and eight films, and Marquand had produced more than a dozen highly lucrative mainstream novels and a number of short stories.