Kenneth Lamott

Kenneth Lamott was an American writer.

Lamott left Yale during World War II and joined the Navy with the rank of Lieutenant. He was assigned to interrogate Japanese prisoners of war. His first novel, The Stockade, was about a group of Navy men and Marines guarding a group of natives confined within a stockade on an Island in the Pacific as the war ends.[1]

He was the father of American novelist and non-fiction writer Anne Lamott.


Bibliography

Novels

  • The Stockade (1952, Little Brown) [2][3]
  • The White Sand of Shirahama (1954, Little Brown) [4] [5][6]

Non-fiction

  • Anti-California; report from our first parafascist state (1971, Little Brown)
  • Chronicles of San Quentin ; the biography of a prison. (1961, D. McKay Co.)
  • The Bastille Day parade (1963, D. McKay Co.)
  • The Moneymakers (1969, Little Brown) [7]
  • Who killed Mr. Crittenden? : being a true account of the notorious murder that stunned San Francisco--the Laura D. Fair case (c1963, D. McKay Co.)

References

  1. ↑ "Books - Authors". New York Times. 3 January 1952. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  2. ↑ Falk, Ray (8 June 1952). "Behind the Barbed Wire: The Stockade (book review)". New York Times. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  3. ↑ Snyder, Marjorie (8 June 1952). "Lieutenant Does His Duty And Story Ends in Horror (book review)". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Morgan, Constance (8 August 1954). "Sex and Religion Cause Explosion At Beach Resort: The White Sand of Shirahama (book review)". Washington Post. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  5. ↑ Espy, John (18 July 1954). "Codes and Consequence (book review)". New York Times. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  6. ↑ Jackson, Henry Joseph (14 July 1954). "Bookman's Notebook (book review)". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
  7. ↑ Rolo, Charles (8 June 1969). "The rich are different--from what they used to be (book review)". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 13 June 2017.
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