Thomas Sigismund Stribling (b. March 4, 1881, Clifton, Tennessee; d. July 8, 1965, Clifton, Tennessee) was an American writer and lawyer. March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Clifton is a city in Wayne County, Tennessee, United States. ... July 8 is the 189th day of the year (190th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 176 days remaining. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Clifton is a city in Wayne County, Tennessee, United States. ...

He attended the Florence Normal School (now the University of North Alabama), then studied law at the University of Alabama. The University of North Alabama (UNA) is a four-year public coeducational university located in Florence, Alabama. ... The University of Alabama (also known as Alabama, UA or colloquially as Bama) is a public coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. ...

Works

Novels

• The Cruise of the Dry Dock (1917)
• Birthright (1921), the basis of motion pictures made in 1924 and 1939 of the same name
• Fombombo (1922)
• Red Sand (1923)
• Teeftallow (1926)
• Bright Metal (1928)
• East is East (1928)
• Strange Moon (1929)
• Backwater (1930)
• The Forge (1931)
• The Store (1932), for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1933)
• Unfinished Cathedral (1933)
• The Sound Wagon (1935)
• These Bars of Flesh (1938)
• Coauthor (with David Wallace) of Rope, a dramatization of Teeftallow, produced on Broadway (1928)

The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ...

Short fiction

• Clues of the Caribbees: Being Certain Criminal Investigations of Henry Poggioli, Ph. D. (1929)
• Best Dr. Poggioli Detective Stories (1975)

Poetry

• Design on Darkness

Non-fiction

• Laughing Stock: The Posthumous Autobiography of T.S. Stribling (1982)

External links

• Biography at the University of North Alabama
• Thomas Sigismund Stribling at the Internet Movie Database
• T.S. Stribling at the Internet Broadway Database