Ross Lockridge Jr., American author, poet, and academic (born 1914)

Ross Lockridge Jr.

American novelist (1914–1948)

Ross Franklin Lockridge Jr. was an American writer known for his novel Raintree County (1948). The novel became a bestseller and has been praised by readers and critics alike. Some have considered it a "Great American Novel". Lockridge died by suicide at the peak of his novel's…