Thomas Sigismund Stribling was born in Clifton, Tennessee, in 1881. He earned a law degree and practiced law in Alabama for under two years, stopping in 1907 to focus on writing. He first gained recognition with adventure stories in fiction magazines.
He was one of the most popular writers of the 1920s and 1930s, and some of his works were adapted into films and Broadway plays. His Vaiden trilogy consists of The Forge (1931), The Store (1932) and The Unfinished Cathedral (1934). The Store won the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, and he died in Florence, Alabama, in 1965.
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