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Franklin Walker (1900–1978)

Author of San Francisco's Literary Frontier

9+ Works 67 Members 0 Reviews

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Includes the name: Franklin Dickerson Walker

Works by Franklin Walker

San Francisco's Literary Frontier (1939) 19 copies

Jack London and the Klondike: The Genesis of an American Writer (1966) 18 copies

The Seacoast of Bohemia (1966) 9 copies

A literary history of southern California (1950) 7 copies

Irreverent Pilgrims: Melville Browne and Mark Twain in the Holy Land (1974) 5 copies

Frank Norris, a biography. (1963) 4 copies

Ambrose Bierce: The Wickedest Man in San Francisco (1941) 3 copies

Catholic Education and Politics in Ontario, Volume II 1 copy

Jack London's Use of Sinclair Lewis Plots, Together with a Printing of Three of the Plots 1 copy

Associated Works

Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer (1899) — Introduction, some editions — 4,634 copies

The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories (Signet Classics) (1903) — Introduction, some editions — 460 copies

Continent's End: A Collection of California Writing (1944) — Contributor — 12 copies

Travels with Mr. Brown (1st ed., dj) — Editor — 2 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Walker, Franklin
Legal name: Walker, Franklin Dickerson
Other names: Walker, Franklin D.
Birthdate: 1900-11-13
Date of death: 1978-12-29
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Republic Township, Marquette, Michigan, USA
Place of death: Berkeley, California, USA
Places of residence: Berkeley, California, USA
Education: University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D|1932)
St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (MA|1924)
Northern Arizona Normal School
Occupations: professor
literature scholar
Organizations: Mills College
University of Oregon
San Diego State College
United States Air Force (WWII)
Awards and honors: Rhodes Scholar (1921-23)
Guggenheim Fellow (1960)
Commonwealth Club Silver Medal

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Commonwealth Club of California Book Awards

San Francisco's Literary Frontier (Winner – Scholarship – 1939)

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Mark. Compiled and edited by Franklin Walker and Ezra Dane Twain

Statistics

Works: 9
Also by: 4
Members: 67
Popularity: #256,179
Rating: ½ 3.7

ISBNs: 8

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