![]() ![]() Stribling was the first Alabama author to win a Pulitzer for literature the only other one is Harper Lee. A number of the detective stories featured Professor Henry Poggioli. ![]() He continued writing stories even as the novels appeared. He also began writing boys' adventure stories and later some science fiction and westerns and many detective short stories. Michieaux made a sound version in 1939.īefore his first novel was published in 1917, Stribling wrote numerous "Sunday-school stories" for religious publications. Oddly, his second novel, Birthright, was turned into a silent movie in 1924 by pioneer black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. The second novel of those three, The Store, won the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1933. The Tennessee native wrote 16 novels, including a trio set in the Florence, Alabama, area, and spanning the antebellum era into the twentieth century. As a writer of fiction, Thomas Sigismund Stribling led two lives. ![]()
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