Martin Joseph Freeman
Martin Joseph "Tom" Freeman was an American scholar of English literature and novelist. Freeman was at University of Chicago and then Associate Professor of English at Hunter College.[1] His semi-autobiographical childhood account of growing up in the Midwest, Bitter Honey (1942) was awarded Ohio's literary award.[2]
Works
- The murder of a midget, New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. 1931
- Murder by magic, New York : E .P. Dutton, 1932.
- The Case of the Blind Mouse, 1936.
- A text of Shelley's Prometheus unbound, Chicago, Illinois, 1937
- Bitter Honey, New York : Macmillan Co., 1942. - winner of the Ohioana Award
References
- ↑ The University of Chicago Magazine - Volumes 33-34 - Page 32 1940 By Martin Joseph Freeman. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. $2.50. "When Professor Freeman ("Tom" to his friends: how he got Tom out of Martin Joseph I could never figure out) left the University of Chicago last year to take up a position at Hunter College, New York, some of us had a vague idea that he had a novel cooking, but as professors' novels rarely emerge from the study we...to see it blossoming forth in all the glory of a Macmillan jacket for all the world as though it were destined to be a best seller."
- ↑ National News - Page 157 American Legion. Auxiliary - 1942 "Bitter Honey," by Martin Joseph Freeman. The Macmillan Company, $2.50. The experiences of an eleven-year-old boy in a small town in the horse-and-buggy age which, perhaps, are much the same as those of a small boy of the present time
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