Northern Michigan has been home to some historically significant authors like Ernest Hemmingway, but did you know there’s another Pulitzer Prize winning author that grew up in Benzonia? In this week’s ...

Catton (1899-1978) learned not only to listen, but later to write quickly, compactly and vividly. After serving briefly in World War I (but seeing no combat action), he launched his career as a ...

THE COMING FURY (565 pp.)—Bruce Catton—Doubleday ($7.50). In the beginning, the rebel leaders were an unlikely lot. Alabama’s William Lowndes Yancy was as mild a fellow as anyone would want to ...

NEVER CALL RETREAT by Bruce Catton. 555 pages. Doubleday. $7.50. On May 13, 1865, one month after Appomattox, a few hundred Union soldiers fought it out with a tiny Confederate force on the Rio Grande ...

Benzie County high school history students wrote essays for the Bruce Catton Historical Awards, honoring the author who won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for A Stillness at Appomattox. His memoir, Waiting ...

In 1960, I became consumed with the Civil War as America approached the 100th Anniversary of its beginning. I was 8 years old, living on Long Island, and had already read Bruce Catton’s “A Stillness ...

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