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The Author is himself no mean example of U. S. success. Son of a pioneering lawyer in Oklahoma's "Cherokee Strip," he dropped a haphazard education to become a tramp reporter in St. Louis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Chicago, Manhattan and, inter alia, patent-medicine copywriter, dishwasher, author of pulp-magazine fiction. The War took him to France, made him an infantry captain, got him a wound. He took five years to write his first serious book, to such good purpose that it won the 1929 Pulitzer Prize in history. Married (to Bessie Rowland, one-time New Orleans newspaper woman), Author James lives at Pleasantville, N. Y., at 42 is one of the newest but most promising U. S. biographers. Andrew Jackson, The Border Captain is the April choice of the Literary Guild.