![]() ![]() After the war, in 1947, Pennel moved to Oregon where he died on Septemin Multnomah. It is unsurprising that it became the literary hit of 1944. Perkins relates that he stayed up several nights reading Pennel's Rome Hanks and that it was one of the most exciting manuscripts he had come across in years. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. On the fourth, she sent it to Scribner’s where it found its way into the hands of the editor Maxwell Perkins, whose literary discoveries included F. Her first three efforts resulted in failure with the manuscript returned unread. He left his manuscript of The History of Rome Hanks with the librarian to submit for publication. In 1942, Pennel was called away to another war, the Second World War, where he served as a lieutenant. No one in the town knew of his project except for his mother and the town librarian. Living the life of a semi-recluse, he spent the next two years researching the Civil War and the following five writing on it. In the mid-1930s, he had what would now be called a “mid-life crisis” where he moved back to Junction City to figure out “what it is I wanted.” The answer came from his family which contained many members who had fought on both sides of the Civil War. and became a newspaperman for the Denver Post and Los Angeles Examiner. He entered Kansas University in 1922, loved English literature, went to England, and got accepted to Oxford where he studied for 3 more years. Joseph Stanley Pennell was born on the 4th of July 1903 in Junction City, Kansas. ![]()
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