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(1928-2015) Novelist. Hilary Masters was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a child, he lived with his parents at the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan, New York. He was the son of the poet Edgar Lee Masters.

Full Name

Hilary Thomas Masters

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

RESIDENCE

As a child, Mr. Masters spent summers in the 1930s at the Chelsea Hotel in Manhattan, New York.

Unknown

OTHER

Mr. Masters and his first wife ran the Hyde Park Playhouse in Hyde Park, New York.

1928

BIRTH

Hilary Thomas Masters was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 3, 1928.

1956

OTHER

Mr. Masters owned and edited the "Hyde Park Record, a weekly newspaper, in Hyde Park, New York from 1956 to 1959.

1967

LITWORK

The Common Pasture
New York, New York: The Macmillan Company

Novel.

1969

LITWORK

An American Marriage
New York, New York: Macmillan

Novel.

1971

LITWORK

Palace Of Strangers
New York, New York: World Publishing

Novel.

1982

LITWORK

Last Stands: Notes From Memory
Boston, Massachusetts: David R. Godine
0879234431 / 978-0879234430
Memoir.

1985

LITWORK

Clemmons
Boston, Massachusetts: David Godine

Novel.

1986

LITWORK

Hammertown Tales
Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Stuart Wright Pub
0913773182 / 978-0913773185
Collection of short stories.

1986

LITWORK

Hammertown Tales
Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Stuart Wright Pub
0913773182 / 978-0913773185
Collection of short stories.

1987

LITWORK

Cooper
New York, New York: St. Martin's
0312000111 / 978-0312000110
Novel.

1989

LITWORK

Strickland
New York, New York: St. Martin's

Novel.

2006

LITWORK

Elegy For Sam Emerson
Dallas, Texas: Southern Methodist University Press
0870745077 / 978-0870745072
Novel.

2009

LITWORK

How The Indians Buried Their Dead
Dallas, Texas: Southern Methodist University Press
0870745573 / 978-0870745577
Collection of short stories.

2015

DEATH

Hilary Masters died at his home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 14, 2015.

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