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Kingsblood Royal is a 1947 novel by American writer Sinclair Lewis . Synopsis. The protagonist, Neil Kingsblood, a white middle-class man, discovers while researching his family background that he is directly descended from an African adventurer on the American frontier.
A neglected tour de force by the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Kingsblood Royal is a stirring and wickedly funny portrait of a man who resigns from the white race.
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A neglected tour de force by the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Kingsblood Royal is a stirring and wickedly funny portrait of a man who resigns from the white race.
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He had the story from his father, Daniel Kingsblood, the Civil War one, and he had it in turn from his father, Henry Aragon Kingsblood, who was born in Kent, England, in 1797, and emigrated to New Jersey, after having been arrested for publicly claiming, at a state fair or whatever they had in those days in England, that he was the Legitimate ...
A neglected tour de force by the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature, Kingsblood Royal is a stirring and wickedly funny portrait of a man who resigns...
Apr 13, 2001 · Kirkus Reviews is a source of book reviews for various genres and topics, including fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature. Find reviews of books by Sinclair Lewis, Harper Lee, J.D. Salinger, and more, as well as news and features on the book world.
Neil Kingsblood is an affluent white male who recently returned to the mythical town of Grand Republic, Minnesota after being wounded in World War II. After he settles into his predictable life of a rising bank executive, he is asked by his father, who believes that they have distant relatives in the English royal family, to research his genealogy.
- Lewis Sinclair
