Michael Foster (1904-1956) was an American novelist, journalist, screenwriter and cartoonist.
20-2150: Michael or Mike Foster may refer to: Entertainment [ edit ] Michael Foster (American writer) (1904–1956), novelist, journalist, and cartoonist Michael Foster (agent) (born 1958), British former talent agent and political candidate Michael Foster (musician) (born 1964), American drummer of the rock band FireHouse M. A. Foster (Michael Anthony Foster, 1939–2020), American author/writer Michael Lewis Foster , American filmmaker Politics [ edit ] Mike Foster (American politician) (1930–2020), American politician Michael Foster (Hastings and Rye MP) (born 1946), British politician Mike Foster (Worcester MP) (born 1963), British politician Mike Foster (Canadian politician) , of Toronto, Ontario Michael Abu Sakara Foster , Ghanaian agronomist and politician Sports [ edit ] Michael Foster (cricketer, born 1972) , English cricketer Michael Foster (cricketer, born 1973) , Australian cricketer Michael Foster (cricketer, born 1979) , former English cricketer Mike Foster (footballer) (born 1939), English footballer Michael Foster (footballer) (born 1985), Papua New Guinean midfielder Michael G. Foster (1940–2021), founder of Yoshukai International karate Michael Foster Jr. (born 2003), American basketball player Other people [ edit ] Michael Foster (English judge) (1689–1763), English judge Michael Foster (physiologist) (1836–1907), British physiologist and member of parliament (MP) Michael Foster (philosopher) (1903–1959), tutor in philosophy at Oxford University Michael John Foster (scoutmaster) (born 1952), British Scout leader and Anglican priest Michael Foster (folklorist) , American folklore professor Michael Foster (Tolkien scholar) (1946–2023), emeritus professor of English and Tolkien scholar Mike Foster, American activist, co-founder of XXXchurch.com See also [ edit ] Michael Forster (disambiguation) Michael John Foster (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
40-654: A stroke on March 25, 1956, in Reno, Nevada . Foster began his journalism career with the Brooklyn Eagle . He was a reporter and cartoonist for newspapers in Salina, Kansas ; Los Angeles, California, and, by 1937, Seattle, Washington . In 1926, he was working on the Los Angeles Express , a daily newspaper. A friend, Charles Harris Garrigues , wrote that Foster writes, paints, and has been called
60-552: A general mercantile store. Charles Cone ran the Western Auto Store. Two places to eat were Bonnie's Cafe and Mrs. Rogers' sundries store. Arthur Snow was a pharmacist and owned a drugstore. The agent for the Frisco Railroad was Virgil L. Walker, Jr. Dink Booth was the barber. The Thomsons ran the movie theater, and Ben Dalton published a newspaper. Ottie Cate ran a poultry and ice house, and Bill Shaver had
80-833: A pile of old, crumbling letters in the attic, cover a span of three generations . . . . Two books followed — To Remember at Midnight (1938) and House Above the River (1946). About his final book, The Dusty Godmother (1949), reviewer A.C. Spectorsky wrote in the New York Times that Foster had expanded a slick-magazine short story into a light novel which disappoints largely because it has frequent and unfulfilled intimations and overtones of being far more than just that. Garrigues wrote in 1957 after Foster's death that when Foster "had done penance to his father by The American Dream, he had done all he had to do. . . . he had written himself out when he made peace with his father, who
100-708: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Michael Foster (American writer) Foster was born August 29, 1904, in Hardy, Arkansas , the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl D. Foster. His nickname was "Gully." He was a graduate of the University of Washington and the Chicago Art Institute . Foster married his literary agent, novelist Jane Hardy of New York. Their children were Peter Michael Foster and Garrett Ann Foster of San Francisco. Foster died of
120-715: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer until 1952, when he resigned to devote all his time to writing fiction. Foster's first novel, Forgive Adam, was published in 1935 by W. Morrow and Co. Margaret Wallace of the New York Times said of the author: Michael Foster, a young newspaper man on the Pacific Coast, is the newest recruit to the ranks of the hard-boiled novelists. In the brief declarative sentences of his prose style, in his method of consistent understatement, in his attitude of weary and rather self-conscious disillusionment, he has aligned himself with
140-749: The Black River , which flows into the White River , and the White River eventually empties into the Mississippi River . U.S. Route 63 is the main highway which runs through the town. In its course through Arkansas, Route 63 runs from the Missouri state line at Mammoth Spring to connect with Interstate 55 near Gilmore . When roads were poor and travel much more difficult, Hardy was one of two county seats of Sharp County. The other
160-551: The Standard Oil service station. Tom Walker was in charge of the local bank, and Woodrow Wilson ran a Mobil service station. "Peavine" Clouse was the city marshal. "Guinea" Gray was a local painter, and Clifford Brummet had the contract to carry the mail between the post office and the arriving trains. He also had a farm near Hardy. Arthur Garner sold real estate. Dewey Dark ran the Rose Hill Resort. Doctor Miller
180-421: The age of 18 living with them, 40.9% were married couples living together, 9.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 46.6% were non-families. 43.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 23.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.94 and the average family size was 2.67. In the city, the population was spread out, with 16.8% under
200-462: The age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 20.4% from 25 to 44, 27.9% from 45 to 64, and 28.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 49 years. For every 100 females, there were 79.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 73.6 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 17,375, and the median income for a family was $ 25,500. Males had a median income of $ 20,208 versus $ 17,857 for females. The per capita income for
220-625: The city was $ 12,204. About 12.2% of families and 23.4% of the population were below the poverty line , including 23.6% of those under age 18 and 28.6% of those age 65 or over. It is served by the Highland School District , which operates Highland High School . The Highland district was formed from the 1962 consolidation of the Ash Flat School District and the Hardy School District. Due to
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#1732787224034240-426: The city. The population density was 244.7 inhabitants per square mile (94.5/km ). There were 489 housing units at an average density of 207.0 per square mile (79.9/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 95.33% White , 1.04% Native American , 0.52% Asian , and 3.11% from two or more races. 0.52% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 298 households, of which 17.4% had children under
260-607: The much larger Burlington Northern acquired the Frisco and integrated it into its own system. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 5.4 square miles (14.0 km ), of which 5.2 square miles (13.4 km ) is land and 0.23 square miles (0.6 km ), or 4.63%, is water. In the early 1950s, the Horrell and Clay families both had grocery stores there. Conway Horn ran
280-408: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Foster&oldid=1201519747 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
300-536: The school of Hemingway and his imitators. The second novel, American Dream, came in 1937. American Dream told the story of "a disillusioned newspaperman who discovers through old family letters what America meant to the writers and what America should mean to him. Several scenes are reminiscent of the tawdry political atmosphere rendered in Ben Hecht 's and Charles MacArthur 's 1928 play, The Front Page . ". Los Angeles Times reviewer Milton Merlin said that
320-547: The second most promising of the young poets in America by the Lit Dig [ Literary Digest ' ] — doesn't know one note of music from another and improvises the most beautiful piano music . . . He roomed down at the house for a while until we had a fight over a novel he's writing and then he moved out — went on a three weeks' drunk and only started back to work when I threatened to knock his block off if he didn't. He also worked on
340-429: The work was: not an entirely satisfying novel, but it is an ambitious enterprise and an exceptionally compelling story told with feeling and facility. . . . Foster, a Seattle reporter, chooses a member of his profession for his central figure. Shelby Thrall, a disillusioned idealist at 30, reviews three generations of Thralls in an attempt to recapture the meaning of the "American Dream." Shelby's recollections, stirred by
360-497: Was Evening Shade . In 1963, Ash Flat was named the county seat, and Hardy and Evening Shade lost that designation. Hardy is served by the BNSF Railway . Formerly, the railroad through Hardy was part of the Frisco ( St. Louis – San Francisco Railway ) which had about 5,000 miles (8,000 km) of trackage, and served Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma , Kansas , Texas , Tennessee , Alabama , Mississippi , and Florida . In 1980,
380-611: Was a local medical doctor. Leonard Johns worked at the Post Office. The Discovery Channel reality television series Clash of the Ozarks is set in Hardy. The program focuses on the lives of the people in the community. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 743 people, 352 households, and 181 families residing in the city. As of the census of 2000, there were 578 people, 298 households, and 159 families residing in
400-638: Was dead; after that, he drank himself to death trying to find something that was not in him." Hardy, Arkansas Hardy is the 2nd oldest city in Sharp and Fulton counties in the U.S. state of Arkansas . The population was 765 in 2020. Hardy is located at 36°19′14″N 91°28′50″W / 36.32056°N 91.48056°W / 36.32056; -91.48056 (36.320553, -91.480645). The Spring River , which begins in Mammoth Spring , flows through Hardy. The Spring River flows into
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