Frederick Manfred
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Frederick Feikema Manfred (January 6, 1912 to September 7, 1994) was a noted Western author.
Manfred was born in Doon, Iowa. He was baptized Frederick Feikes Feikema, VII, and he used the name Feike Feikema when he published his first books. According to Alvin Plantinga, Manfred thought that he would have a hard time being taken seriously by the Eastern establishment with a name like "Feike Feikema", so he elected to change his name to Frederick Manfred.
For a time he lived in a house which is now the interpretive center of Blue Mounds State Park in Rock County, Minnesota. He attended Calvin College in Michigan.
His books include:
- This is the Year (1947), Doubleday & Company
- The Primitive (1949), Doubleday & Company
- Conquering Horse (1959), ISBN 0-8398-2590-0
- Lord Grizzly (1954), ISBN 0-8398-2591-9, about the ordeal of mountain man Hugh Glass
- Scarlet Plume (1964), ISBN 0-8398-2594-3
- King of Spades (1965), ISBN 0-8398-2592-7
- Riders of Judgment (1957), ISBN 0-8398-2593-5
[edit] See also
- "Frederick Manfred." Dictionary of Literary Biography 212:185-197. 1999.
- The Frederick Manfred Information Page
