Author:Thomas Sigismund Stribling

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Thomas Sigismund Stribling
(1881–1965)

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American author and lawyer, Pulitzer Prize laureate.

Works

Novels

The Cruise of the Dry Dock (1917) (transcription project)
Birthright (1921) — First published as a serial in Century Magazine in 1921, then as a novel in 1922, later adapted into a film under the same title in 1924 and 1939. The 1924 film is lost; only part of the 1939 remains, the remaining portion was restored under the supervision of the Library of Congress.
The Web of the Sun (1922)
- The Web of the Sun (Adventure Magazine, 1922) (novella)
Fombombo (1923)
Red Sand (1924)
Teeftallow (1926)
Bright Metal (1928)
East is East (1922)
Strange Moon (1929)
Backwater (1930)
The Forge (1931)
The Store (1932), winner of the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel
Unfinished Cathedral (1933)
The Sound Wagon (1935)
These Bars of Flesh (1938)
"Apology To Florence", June 1934, an article in Wings Magazine.

Coauthor (with David Wallace) of Rope, a dramatization of Teeftallow, produced on Broadway (1928)

Short stories and collections

The Green Splotches (1920)
Clues of the Caribbees: Being Certain Criminal Investigations of Henry Poggioli, Ph. D. (1929)
Mogglesby (1930)—Copyrighted in the United States until 2026
Best Dr. Poggioli Detective Stories (Dover, 1975)
Dr. Poggioli: Criminologist (Crippen & Landru, 2004)
Web of the Sun (2012) - also contains "The Green Splotches"

Works from periodicals

"The Passing of the St. Louis Bearcat" (1919 Dec, Everybody's) ss
"Tiger Lure" (1920 Jan, Romance) novelette
"What a Young Man Should Know" (1921 Jan, Everybody's) (ss)
"The Magnificent Pompalone" (1921 Dec, Everybody's) (ss)
"The Bullfighter" (1923 Dec, Munsey's Magazine) novelette
"The Return of Sledger" (1923 Dec, Everybody's) (ss)
"The Pothunter" (1925 Sept 07, Popular) (ss)
"Cricket" (1925 Oct 10 Adventure) (novelette)
"A Student of the Tongs" (1926 Nov 8, Adventure) ss

Poetry

Design on Darkness

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