North, Thomas Sterling (sold)
Thomas Sterling North (November 4, 1906 - December 21, 1974) was an American writer and newspaperman. Born in Edgerton, Wisconsin, North attended the University of Chicago and then worked as a writer for the Chicago Daily News, the New York World-Telegram, and the New York Sun before going freelance full-time. Notably, North was one of the first public figures to denounce comic books as the Chicago Daily News Literary Editor in 1940. North wrote several books over the course of his career, including Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era, a memoir of a year in his childhood when he raised a baby racoon. Rascal won several awards, was made into a Disney movie in 1969, and then became a 52-episode Japanese anime series (which introduced the raccoon to a Japanese audience) in 1977. He married Gladys Buchanan (June 3, 1907 - February 5, 1989) with whom he had two children. Gladys and Sterling made at least one map together entitled Being a Literary Map of These United States depicting a Renaissance no less astonishing than that of Periclean Athens or Elizabethan London.
Celebrating American literature.
Being a Literary Map of These United States depicting a Renaissance no less astonishing than that of Periclean Athens or Elizabethan London.
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This is a 1942 Gladys and Sterling North and Frederic Dornseif pictorial map of the United States celebrating literary achievement. Each state features at least one novelist, poet, or historian, and many highlight a work set there. For example, Nebraska focuses on My Antonia by Willa Cather, while The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings dominates Florida. Authors known for works set outside the United States are referenced in the Pacific or Atlantic Oceans, respectively. Pearl Buck and her novel The Good Earth are included on the China Clipper in the Pacific, while authors who took up residence in Europe, including Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, are listed on the passenger list of the S.S. Europa. The U.S.S. Foreign Correspondent also occupies space in the Atlantic, with William Shirer and John Gunther among its passengers. (more details)