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Date of Birth
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04-February-1904
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Place of Birth
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Webster City
(Hamilton County, Iowa, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, Mackinlay Kantor
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Profession
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Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter
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MacKinlay Kantor, born Benjamin McKinlay Kantor, was an American journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 novels, several set during the American Civil War, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1956 for his 1955 novel Andersonville, about the Confederate prisoner of war camp.
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