MacKinlay Kantor, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (born 1904)

MacKinlay Kantor

American journalist (1904–1977)

MacKinlay Kantor, born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the American Civil War, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel, Andersonville. He also…