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Thomas Alexander Boyd (1898-1935) was an American journalist and novelist born in Defiance, Ohio where he was raised by his mother's family as his father had died before he was born. While still in school, he and a friend enlisted in the US Marine Corps and saw service in France where he was gassed in 1918. Upon discharge from the occupation forces in 1919 Boyd tried several occupations before becoming a writer for newspapers in Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota. He went on to open a bookstore, Kilmarnock Books, in St Paul which became the focus of literary figures including Sinclair Lewis. Urged to write himself, in 1923 he published his first novel Through the Wheat, based in part on his own wartime experiences. Contemporary reviews compared it to The Red Badge of Courage and F Scott Fitzgerald called it "a work of art," praising it in a review published in the New York Evening Post. Boyd later became interested in socialist causes during the Depression, eventually running as the Communist candidate for governor of Vermont. He died suddenly of a stroke in 1935.

Excerpt from Through the WheatUsk, like soft blue smoke, fell with the dying spring air and settled upon the northern French village. In the uncertain light one and two story buildings set along the crooked street showed crisply, bearing a resem blance to false teeth in an ash-old face. To young Hicks, disconsolate as he leaned against the outer wall of the French canteen, upon whose smooth white surface his body made an unseemly blot, life was worth very little.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

New out of a Defiance, Ohio, secondary school, Thomas Boyd (1898– 1935) joined the Marines to serve his nation in the devoted warmth of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he got back home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a craving to compose. He joined the St. Paul News as a writer and opened a book shop, whose supporters included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Through the Wheat appeared to quick recognition, with F. Scott Fitzgerald calling it "a masterpiece" and "capturing." Boyd composed five different works before he passed away in Vermont of a cerebral discharge at age thirty-seven.

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