Bernard Marshall

Bernard G. Marshall was an American writer. His historical novel Cedric the Forester was one runnerup for the inaugural Newbery Medal in 1922.

Bernard Gay Marshall was born to Francis F. and Helen F. Doten Marshall in North Easton, Massachusetts, where he later attended high school. Wanting to be a writer, he thought he could play in orchestras and make a living until he had a foothold as an author.244 He subsequently worked as a musician, legal stenographer, an advertising and technical writer, and as a ship builder during World War I.245 In July 1903 Marshall married Ida M. Conklin. The couple had one daughter, Harriet C.

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