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The Robe, The Big Fisherman, Magnificent Obsession. Spouse. Bessie L Porch. Children. Bessie L. Douglas, Virginia V Douglas. Lloyd Cassel Douglas (August 27, 1877 – February 13, 1951) was an American minister and author. Douglas was one of the most popular American authors of his time, although he did not write his first novel until he was 50.
Lloyd C. Douglas Lloyd C. Douglas was born in Columbia City, Indiana on August 27, 1877. He spent parts of his childhood in Wilmot, Indiana, Monroeville, Indiana, and Florence, Kentucky, where his dad (Alexander Jackson Douglas) was the pastor of the Hopeful Lutheran Church. Lloyd was married to Bessie Porch, and they had two kids Bessie J and ...
Lloyd C. Douglas has 92 books on Goodreads with 55703 ratings. Lloyd C. Douglas’s most popular book is The Robe.
Douglas, Lloyd C. (1878-1951)With the publication of The Robe in 1942, Lloyd C. Douglas became the most influential religious novelist in the world. Following in the tradition of Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (1880), Douglas' novels satisfied a reading public's demands for rollicking adventure and historical romance, combined with piety.
Lloyd C. Douglas was a Lutheran minister and author of religious novels, such as The Robe and Magnificent Obsession. Many of his books were adapted into successful films, such as The Robe (1953) and Magnificent Obsession (1954).
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Nov 19, 2019 · by Ronald R Johnson (www.ronaldrjohnson.com)In the summer of 1986, I wrote a letter to Betty Douglas Wilson c/o Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company. Lloyd Douglas published all but one of his novels with Houghton Mifflin, and a year after his death in 1951, Houghton Mifflin published The Shape of Sunday, in which his daughters (Mrs. Wilson and her sister, Mrs. Virginia Douglas Dawson) shared ...
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Mar 23, 1986 · I WAS in eighth grade, 14 years old, when I read Lloyd C. Douglas's novel ''The Robe,'' a story about the Roman officer who crucified Jesus and won his seamless robe in a toss of the dice. Douglas ...
