Which author was also a soldier, James M. Cain or Alain-Fournier?
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James M. Cain James Mallahan Cain (July 1, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was an American author and journalist. Cain vehemently opposed labeling, but he is usually associated with the hardboiled school of American crime fiction and is seen as one of the creators of the "roman noir". Several of his crime novels inspired successful movies.
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Alain-Fournier Alain-Fournier (] ) was the pseudonym of Henri-Alban Fournier (3 October 1886 – 22 September 1914), a French author and soldier. He was the author of a single novel, "Le Grand Meaulnes" (1913), which has been twice filmed and is considered a classic of French literature.
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George Cary Eggleston George Cary Eggleston (26 November 1839 – 14 April 1911) American author and brother of fellow author Edward Eggleston (1837–1902). Sons of Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. After the American Civil War he published a serialized account of his time as a Confederate soldier in "The Atlantic Monthly". These serialized articles were later collected and expanded upon and published under the title "A Rebel's Recollections."
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James Shaw Kennedy General Sir James Shaw Kennedy, KCB (13 October 1788 – 30 May 1865) was a British soldier and military writer.
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James Veneris James George Veneris (1922 – 2004), was an American soldier during the Korean War, who was captured by the Chinese and one of 21 US soldiers at the end of the war who decided they would rather stay in China than return to the US.
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François Fournier-Sarlovèze François Louis Fournier-Sarlovèze (6 September 1773 Sarlat, France – 18 January 1827) was a French general of the Napoleonic Wars. He was known as "the worst subject of the Grande Armée."
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Johnny Reb &amp; Billy Yank Johnny Reb & Billy Yank is a novel first published in 1905 by Alexander Hunter, a soldier who served in Confederate General Robert E. Lee Army from 1861 to 1865. The novel is noted for encapsulating most of the major events of the American Civil War, due to Hunter's obvious involvement in them.
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Thomas Alexander Boyd Thomas Alexander Boyd (July 3, 1898 – January 27, 1935) was an American journalist and novelist, born in Defiance, Ohio. He was raised by his mother's family due to his father's death 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.
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Nicholas Cain Nicholas Cain is a private investigator and author of action novels.
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Christopher Columbus Andrews Christopher Columbus Andrews (October 27, 1829 – September 21, 1922) was an American soldier, diplomat, newspaperman, author, and forester.
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John James Snodgrass Lt. Col. John James Snodgrass (22 October 1796 – 14 January 1841), was a British military officer, aide-de-camp to Sir Archibald Campbell, 1st Baronet, fought in the Battle of Waterloo and author. The last seven years of his life were in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he died and is buried in the Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia).
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François Joseph Fournier François Joseph Fournier (December 6, 1857 - January 13, 1935) was a self-taught Belgian adventurer and entrepreneur who explored Mexico and the island of Porquerolles. He was born into a family of modest means, in Clabecq, Belgium and died on Porquerolles.
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Thomas Bailey Marquis Thomas Bailey Marquis (December 19, 1869 – March 22, 1935) was an American self-taught historian and ethnographer who wrote about the Plains Indians and other subjects of the American frontier. He had a special interest in the destruction of George Armstrong Custer's battalion at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, which became his lifelong obsession. Marquis' body of work is valued by historians for his recording of the life stories of several Plains Indians and his writing on their way of life, particularly those involved in the Custer fight, notably Wooden Leg in "A Warrior Who Fought Custer". Marquis carried out this research at a time when few were interested in the Indian version of events, even though no American soldiers survived the Custer fight. Marquis' work is thus both unique and unrepeatable.
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James Rogers McConnell James Rogers McConnell (14 March 1887 – 19 March 1917) flew as an aviator during World War I in the Lafayette Escadrille and authored "Flying for France". He was the first of sixty-four University of Virginia students to die in battle during that War.
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Talbot Mercer Papineau Major Talbot Mercer Papineau, MC (25 March 1883 – 30 October 1917) was a lawyer and decorated soldier from Quebec, Canada.
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Devil's Guard Devil's Guard, by George Robert Elford published in 1971, is the story of a former German Waffen-SS officer's string of near-constant combat that begins on World War II's eastern front and continues into the book's focus—the First Indochina War, as an officer in the French Foreign Legion. The book is presented by the author as nonfiction but considered to be untrue by military historians, and usually sold as fiction. In 2006 the online bookstore AbeBooks reported that it was among the 10 novels most frequently sold to American soldiers in Iraq (the only war fiction in the top 10, in fact).
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Sean Drummond Lt. Col. Sean Drummond is the protagonist of a series of novels written by Brian Haig. He was born in 1965. Son of a US Army colonel (who was injured in the Vietnam War), he joined the US Army as an infantry officer and was later recruited by a special forces unit nicknamed "The Outfit", until he was injured in combat and was forced to change his career path. He became a member of a special group of JAG lawyers (Judge Advocate General Corps), which handles cases involving members of the US special forces or the military intelligence community. In the beginning of his career as a JAG lawyer, he worked primarily in what is known as "Black Court," (officially called SPECAT Court) where special forces members are tried without risk of exposing their missions. He went to Georgetown Law and graduated with the second highest grade in his class.
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Meditations in Green Meditations in Green is the first novel written by Stephen Wright. First published in 1983, It is an account of Spec. 4 James Griffin's tour in Vietnam.
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James Audain James Guy Payne Audain (born 1903 in Bournemouth, England) was a soldier, author, and racehorse breeder/owner. Educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he became a cavalry officer. He was the eldest grandson of BC premier James Dunsmuir.
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Owen Suffolk Owen Hargrave Suffolk (4 April 1829 – ? ) an Australian bushranger, poet, confidence-man and author of "Days of Crime and Years of Suffering" (1867).
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Paul Fournier Paul Fournier (26 November 1853, Calais – 14 May 1935, Paris) was a French legal historian. He was a member of the Institut de France.
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James Alexander Thom James Alexander Craig Thom (born May 26, 1933 in Gosport, Indiana) is an American author, best known for his works in the Western genre and colonial American history which are noted for their historical accuracy borne of his painstaking research. Thom graduated from Butler University in 1961 with a BA in Journalism after serving in the United States Marine Corps in the Korean War. He taught a course in journalism at Indiana University, and was a contributor to "The Saturday Evening Post".