Ebook {Epub PDF} Raintree County by Ross Lockridge Jr.

 · Ross Lockridge Jr., a Great American Tragedy. Writer Ross Lockridge Jr. (RLJ) killed himself on March 6, , just two months after his book “Raintree County” was published. Pictured here, RLJ is signing autographs at an L. S. Ayres department store in Indianapolis on www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. A web site dedicated to Raintree County, the Novel; and Shade of the Raintree, the Biography of Ross Lockridge Jr. Raintree County is an encyclopedic, mythological, ecological, Mother Earth goddess, Civil War based novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr. published in ; The biography by Larry Lockridge, is a powerful scholars look at the life and suicide of his father. Ross Franklin Lockridge, Jr., (Ap – March 6, ) was an American novelist of the midth century. He is noted for Raintree County (), a widely praised novel which many readers and critics considered a contender for the "Great American Novel," and for his death by suicide just as it was reaching the top of the best-seller lists.4/5.

Raintree County is a novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr. published in It tells the story of a small-town Midwestern teacher and poet named John Shawnessy, who, in his younger days before his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War, met and married a beautiful Southern belle; however, her emotional instability leads to the destruction of their marriage. ROSS LOCKRIDGE, JR. Raintree County Sixty Years Later: A Remembrance IN I PUBLISHED Aurora Dawn, a slender spoof of radio advertising in a pseudo-Fielding style. That year a big film company offered a munificent prize for a first novel, so I forlornly (yet secretly hopefully, of course) submitted my maiden effort. The winner of the prize. RAINTREE COUNTY was the sole novel authored by Ross F. Lockridge, Jr. (Ap - March 6, ) who, suffering from severe depression and exhaustion, tragically committed suicide shortly after the book's publication.

Raintree County is a novel by Ross Lockridge, Jr. published in It tells the story of a small-town Midwestern teacher and poet named John Shawnessy, who, in his younger days before his service as a Union soldier in the Civil War, met and married a beautiful Southern belle ; however, her emotional instability leads to the destruction of their marriage. by Lockridge, Ross, Jr. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co. , Octavo, hardcover, green cloth with gilt "raintree" on cover. VG; No Jacket. Endpapers show peaceful pre-Civil War scenes of the County. Green cloth boards with binding gilt lettering design on spine front cover (a beautiful gilt Raintree) p. The coroner declared this a suicide, but many of his friends refused to believe it. After all, Ross Lockridge, Jr., a thirty three-year old author from Indiana, had much to live for. Raintree County, his first novel, had just reached number one on the best seller lists and was getting hundreds of rave reviews. It had won an enormous movie contract with MGM.