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Gerald Warner Brace

Birth
Islip, Suffolk County, New York, USA
Death
20 Jul 1978 (aged 76)
Blue Hill, Hancock County, Maine, USA
Burial
Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA Add to Map
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Gerald Warner Brace (24 September 1901 – 20 July 1978) was an artist, writer, professor, sailor, and boat builder. He wrote eleven novels and, other literary works, including: The Age of the Novel (1957) and The Stuff of Fiction (1969). He published his autobiography in 1976, Days That Were, with his own illustrations. He was a 1958 National Book Award nominee for fiction. In 1967 he won the Shell Award for Distinguished Writing from Boston University. His novels are mostly set in New England.

They include:

* The Islands (1936), set in Maine
* The Wayward Pilgrims (1938), set in a Vermont train depot
* Light on a Mountain (1941)
* The Garretson Chronicle (1947)
* A Summer's Tale (1949)
* The Spire (1952)
* The World of Carrick's Cove (1947), a nominee for the 1958 National Book Award for Fiction
* Bell's Landing (1955)
* Winter Solstice (1960)
* The Wind's Will (1964)
* The Department (1968/1983), which was translated and published in Bengali in 1970
Gerald Warner Brace (24 September 1901 – 20 July 1978) was an artist, writer, professor, sailor, and boat builder. He wrote eleven novels and, other literary works, including: The Age of the Novel (1957) and The Stuff of Fiction (1969). He published his autobiography in 1976, Days That Were, with his own illustrations. He was a 1958 National Book Award nominee for fiction. In 1967 he won the Shell Award for Distinguished Writing from Boston University. His novels are mostly set in New England.

They include:

* The Islands (1936), set in Maine
* The Wayward Pilgrims (1938), set in a Vermont train depot
* Light on a Mountain (1941)
* The Garretson Chronicle (1947)
* A Summer's Tale (1949)
* The Spire (1952)
* The World of Carrick's Cove (1947), a nominee for the 1958 National Book Award for Fiction
* Bell's Landing (1955)
* Winter Solstice (1960)
* The Wind's Will (1964)
* The Department (1968/1983), which was translated and published in Bengali in 1970


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