James Branch Cabell

James Branch Cabell was born in 1879 in Richmond, Virginia, into an old Southern family. While still a student at William and Mary College, he taught French and Greek there, then worked as a journalist in New York and Richmond and devoted himself to the genealogy of his family. He wrote some fifty books, largely collected in an eighteen-volume edition, many of them set in an imaginary province of medieval France. Backed by Mencken and widely read in the twenties, he fell out of favour from the thirties onwards and died in Richmond in 1958.

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• NovelJurgenJames Branch Cabell · 1919LiteraturePublic domain