Horgan, Paul - Horgan, Paul 1903–
Horgan, Paul 1903–
An American editor, playwright, historian, essayist, short story writer, and novelist, Horgan is a regionalist writer of the American Southwest. Horgan won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize in History for Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History. His works, in which his Catholicism figures prominently, are characterized by attitudes of charity, optimism, and a belief that spiritual forces are at work in life. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 13-16, rev. ed.)
Though he is a Catholic writer, Horgan is more devoted to explaining human dignity achieved through experience than he is to specifically "religious" answers. Somewhat like the whiskey priest in The Power and The Glory, his characters are more than Catholic, for they embody the experiences universal to the growth of the human spirit.
In some ways "Death and the Children" is a prototype of the most significant of Horgan's writings. Its...
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