Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines

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.

Author: Thomas Boyd
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 09/01/2000
Pages: 266
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780803261686

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/15/2000 pg. 102

About the Author
Introducing this Bison Books edition is Edwin Howard Simmons, a retired brigadier general in the United States Marine Corps and the author of The United States Marines: A History.

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