Frederick Feikema Manfred was an American writer of Westerns, very much connected to his native region: the American Midwest, and the prairies of the West.
13 Facts About Frederick Manfred
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Frederick Manfred was baptized Frederick Feikes Feikema VII, and he used the name Feike Feikema when he published his first books.
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Frederick Manfred was the oldest of six boys, all over six feet tall, and was himself six feet nine inches tall.
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In 1937, Frederick Manfred starting working as a sports reporter for The Minneapolis Journal.
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Frederick Manfred was fired a couple years later, due to his involvement in union organization.
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Shortly after this, Frederick Manfred developed tuberculosis and entered Glen Lake Sanatorium in Oak Terrace, Minnesota, in April 1940.
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Frederick Manfred left the sanatorium in 1942 and worked on the staff of Modern Medicine and as assistant campaign manager for Hubert Humphrey, who was a candidate for mayor of Minneapolis.
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Frederick Manfred published The Primitive, the first novel in his World's Wanderer trilogy, in 1949.
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In 1952 Manfred decided to change his name from Frederick Feikema to Frederick Feikema Manfred, and Frederick Manfred became his publishing name.
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Lord Grizzly, the first of The Buckskin Man Tales, was the first work Frederick Manfred published under his new name.
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Frederick Manfred had three children with his wife Maryanna Shorba Manfred: Freya Manfred, Frederick Manfred Jr.
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Frederick Manfred was the writer-in-residence in the English Department at the University of South Dakota during the 1970s and 1980s.
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Frederick Manfred died in Luverne, Minnesota in 1994, of a brain tumor, at the age of 82.