Author | MacKinlay Kantor |
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Language | English |
Genre | Historical novel |
Publisher | World Publishing Company |
Publication date | October 27, 1955[1] |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
ISBN | 0-452-26956-3 |
Andersonville is a novel by MacKinlay Kantor concerning the Confederate prisoner of war camp Andersonville prison during the American Civil War (1861–1865). The novel was originally published in 1955, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year.
Kantor's novel was not the basis for a 1996 John Frankenheimer film Andersonville. Although Kantor sold the motion picture rights of his novel to one of the major Hollywood studios in the 1950s, it was never produced. Kantor's novel and the movie of the same name are two separate properties.