Louis Paul
{{short description|American short story writer and novelist}}
Leroi Placet, known by his pen name Louis Paul (c. 1902 – February 13, 1970),{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/17/archives/louis-paul-author-of-13-novels-dead.html|title=LOUIS PAUL, AUTHOR OF 13 NOVELS, DEAD|date=1970-02-17|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-03-24}} was an American short story writer and novelist.
He corresponded with John Steinbeck.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/steinbecklifeinl00stei|url-access=registration|title=Steinbeck: a life in letters|last=Steinbeck|first=John|date=1975-01-01|publisher=Viking Press|isbn=9780670669622|language=en}} His work appeared in American Mercury{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8IIqAAAAMAAJ|title=The American Mercury|last=Nathan|first=George Jean|date=1941-01-01|publisher=Knopf|language=en}} and Esquire.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YzeyAAAAIAAJ|title=The Bedside Esquire|last=Gingrich|first=Arnold|date=1940-01-01|publisher=Tudor|language=en}} He adapted his book Breakdown into the play The Cup of Trembling, which opened in Boston April 5, 1948.{{cite magazine| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_UDAAAAMBAJ&dq=Louis+Paul+novelist+-cailletet+-boon+-dessar&pg=PA41| magazine=Billboard| date=Apr 17, 1948| issn=0006-2510| title=Out of Town Opening}}
Awards
- 1934 O. Henry Award
Works
- {{cite book| title=The pumpkin coach| publisher=Literary Guild| year=1935 }}
- {{cite book| title=A horse in Arizona| publisher=Doubleday, Doran| year=1936 }}
- {{cite book| title=Emma |publisher=Doubleday, Doran|year=1937}}
- {{cite book| title=The man who left home| publisher=The Black cat press| year=1938 }}
- {{cite book| title=A passion for privacy| publisher=Knopf| year=1940 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Reverend Ben Pool: a novel| publisher=Duell, Sloan and Pearce| year=1941 }}
- {{cite book| title=This is my brother: a novel| publisher=Crown publishers| year=1943 }}
- {{cite book| title=Breakdown| publisher=Crown publishers| year=1946 }}
- {{cite book| title=A father in the family| publisher=Crown Publishers| year=1951 }}
- {{cite book| title=The man who came home| publisher=Crown Publishers| year=1953 }}
- {{cite book| title=Heroes, kings, and men| publisher=Dial Press| year=1955 }}
- {{cite book| title=Dara, the Cypriot| publisher=Simon and Schuster| year=1959 }}
- {{cite book| title=Papa Luigi's marionettes| publisher=I. Washburn| year=1962 }}
- {{cite book| title=The way art happens| publisher=Washburn| year=1963 }}
=Anthologies=
- {{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PyVRNxUqQx4C&dq=%22Louis+Paul%22&pg=PA342| chapter=A Cup of Coffee| title=Stories for Men: An Anthology| author=Charles Grayson| publisher=Kessinger Publishing| year=2005| isbn=978-1-4191-1333-8 }}
- {{cite book| title=The Esquire treasury: the best of twenty years of Esquire |editor=Arnold Gingrich| publisher=Simon and Schuster| year=1953 }}
==External links==
- [https://aspace.lib.uiowa.edu/repositories/2/resources/869 Louis Paul Papers] are housed at University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections & Archives.
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