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One of the most literary and colorful characters in Sarasota's history was writer MacKinlay Kantor.

Kantor was born in Webster City, Iowa, in 1904.

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His mother, a journalist, encouraged Kantor to develop his writing style. Kantor started writing seriously as a teen-ager when he worked as a reporter with his mother at the local newspaper in Webster City. During this period he also wrote poetry and won a short story contest sponsored by the Des Moines Register.

His fascination with the Civil War began as a young child.

At the age of seven, Kantor would march with the Civil War veterans in the Grand Army of the Republic parades down the streets of Webster City.

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He told everybody that he was a Civil War veteran.

Kantor's first novel was published when he was 24. After traveling around the country for a while, Kantor settled in Sarasota; he and his wife built their house on Siesta Key in 1937. At that time, the key was a jungle and, with only a few houses, the are MacKinlay Kantor Biography - Pantheon XEF