Leonard Cline

God Head was published on 10 October 1925.

Here is a poem Cline sent from the Tolland Connecticut jail in December 1927, three months into his one year sentence for manslaughter (he had pleaded guilty to manslaughter just before a trial on charges of first degree murder would have commenced in mid…

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Leonard Cline worked at the Detroit News from late 1916 through early 1922.

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Leonard Cline matriculated as a freshman at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in the fall of 1910.

This poem first appeared in Scribner's Magazine, for January 1926.

Leonard Cline's posthumous poetry collection After-Walker (1930) was submitted to the publisher a few years earlier under the title Haunted House.

Cline's review of Waldo Frank's odd novel Chalk Face appeared on the book page at the St.

It has to be at least ten years since I found a new (to me) publication of anything by Leonard Cline, so I was overjoyed to find that Cline had given a choice blurb for a book published by his own publisher, the Viking Press.

In my previous post, I noted that Leonard Cline and John Wilstach certainly knew each other by April 1928.

In the early 1990s, as I began exploring the papers of Leonard Cline, I found an interesting undated and unsigned carbon copy of a letter to The Saturday Review about their review of The Dark Chamber.

On December 10th 1926, Leonard Cline and his second wife Katharine Gridley (who were married only a month earlier on November 9th) purchased a large amount of land in rural Mansfield, Connecticut, to the north of Willimantic.

A rather breathless and overwrought book review, from the 4 September 1927 issue of The New York Herald Tribune.

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The first reprint (since its original publication in 1927) of The Dark Chamber was in mass market form by Popular Library of New York.

Cline's poem, "On a Picture", was written in 1911, and published in Poems (1914).

Inside the Tolland County Jail The Mansfield (Connecticut) Historical Society Newsletter for March 2010 published an article by Tolland town historian Barbara Cook on Leonard Cline.

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It's a rare event when I find a Cline publication that is entirely new to me.

A quick note here to call attention to a new edition of God Head, translated into Finnish by Juri Nummelin, and recently published (as Jumalan pää) by Oppian of Finland.

Here is Cline's review of Tales of Intrigue and Revenge (1925), by Stephen McKenna, as published in the Books section of The New York Herald Tribune for 27 September 1925.

When Cline visited his sister in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the autumn of 1925, he gave to his twelve year old nephew a book, The Red Cord: A Romance of China (1925), by Thomas Grant Springer, Cline inscribed it as follows: "Nov. 3, 1925.

The Viking Press paid for this full page advertisement for The Dark Chamber in Publishers' Weekly for the July 30th 1927 issue, about two weeks before the book was to be published.

Gretchen Mount I have so far been unable to source this review to its original appearance.