James, Marquis

James, Marquis( 1891–1955),
author of The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston (1929, Pulitzer Prize), Andrew Jackson: The Border Captain (1933), Andrew Jackson: Portrait of a President (1937), Alfred I. du Pont (1941), and Biography of a Business (1942) and Metropolitan Life (1947), histories of insurance companies. The Cherokee Strip (1945) is an account of his Oklahoma boyhood.