Harold Sinclair (novelist)

Harold Sinclair (1907–1966) was an Illinois writer who produced several historical novels, including some about settler life in the Midwest.

He dropped out of high school and traveled around the country, but eventually returned to live in Bloomington.

[3] The New York Times and Newsweek both published positive reviews of his second novel, American Years, in 1938.

Roy W. Meyer said, "[Although n]ot properly a farm novel at all ... [t]here is a sense of authenticity in the account of the daily lives and concerns of these small town Illinois people".

Because The Horse Soldiers was such a commercial success in the 1960s (and remains popular 70 years later),[citation needed] shortly before his 1966 death, Sinclair signed an option to have the 1958 sequel Civil War book that he wrote, The Cavalryman, become a made-for-television series.