Awards & Winners

Phil Stong

Date of Birth 27-January-1899
Place of Birth Pittsburg
(Van Buren County, Iowa, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Philip Stong, Philip Duffield Stong
Profession Writer, Journalist, Author
Philip Duffield Stong was an American author, journalist and Hollywood scenarist. He is best known for writing the novel State Fair, on which three films and one musical by that name were based. Stong was born in Pittsburg, Iowa, near Keosauqua. His father operated the general store, which is now an antique store. The 1844 brick house where Stong was born is located adjacent to the store and is now a private residence. He attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Stong scored his first success in 1932 with the publication of his famous novel, State Fair, which was later adapted for the screen as the hit Rodgers and Hammerstein musical of the same name. In addition to his novels, his short stories were published in most of the leading national magazines of the time, and he wrote several screenplays. About his writing career, he once said, "Fell while trying to clamber out of a low bathtub at the age of two. Became a writer. No other possible career." Stong's The Other Worlds: 25 Modern Stories of Mystery and Imagination, was considered by Robert Silverberg to be the first anthology of science-fiction. Compiling stories from 1930s pulp magazines, along with what Stong called "Scientifiction" it also contained works of horror and fantasy.

Awards by Phil Stong

Check all the awards nominated and won by Phil Stong.

1936


John Newbery Medal
Honored for : Honk the Moose

Nominations 1936 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
John Newbery Medal Honk the Moose