Through The Wheat by Thomas Boyd
Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (1898-1935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write. He joined the St. Paul News as a journalist and opened a bookstore, whose patrons included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Through the Wheat appeared to immediate acclaim, with F. Scott Fitzgerald calling it a work of art and arresting. Boyd wrote five other works before he died in Vermont of a cerebral hemorrhage at age thirty-seven.
Thomas Alexander Boyd (1898-1935) was a Marine veteran of World War I and the author of the novel Through the Wheat (1923), widely regarded as one of the finest depictions of combat in American literature. Boyd also wrote historical fiction and biographies of figures such as General Mad Anthony Wayne and Light Horse Harry Lee, the father of Robert E. Lee. Steven Trout is the chair of the Department of English and codirector of the Center for the Study of War and Memory at the University of South Alabama. He is the author of On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919-1941 and coeditor of World War I in American Fiction: An Anthology of Short Stories.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781515439851 |
| ISBN 10 | 1515439852 |
| Title | Through The Wheat |
| Author | Thomas Boyd |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wilder Publications |
| Year published | 2019-01-07 |
| Number of pages | 146 |
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