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Lockridge Ross Franklin, Jr.
(1914—1948)

Ross Franklin Lockridge, Jr. was an American novelist of the mid-20th century. He is noted for Raintree County (1948), an expansive attempt at creating the "Great American Novel". Lockridge was born and raised in Bloomington, Indiana. He graduated from Indiana University in 1935 with the highest average in the history of the university. Lockridge married and had four children. Lockridge's novel Raintree County was published in early 1948, to great critical acclaim. It traces the 19th-century history of a fictional midwestern county through the reminiscences of its protagonist, John Wickliff Shawnessy. Suffering from severe depression, Lockridge committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning shortly after the novel's publication. His grave is in Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington. In 1957, MGM released the motion picture version of "Raintree County" starring Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift and Eva Marie Saint. It received fair to good reviews and did moderately well at the box office.

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