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Lloyd C. Douglas
Lloyd Cassel Douglas (August 27, 1877 – February 13, 1951) was an American minister and author. Although Douglas was one of the most popular American authors of his time, he did not write his first novel until the age of 50.
Douglas was born in Columbia City, Indiana. His father was a minister and the family lived for part of Douglas's boyhood in Monroeville and Wilmot, Indiana and Florence, Kentucky. In Florence, his father was the pastor of the Hopeful Lutheran Church.
After receiving a degree from Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio in 1903, Douglas was ordained in the Lutheran ministry. He served in pastorates in North Manchester, Indiana, Lancaster, Ohio and Washington, D.C.
After his ordainment, Douglas married Bessie I. Porch. They had two daughters together: Bessie J. Douglas, born about 1899, and Virginia V. Douglas, born about 1901.
From 1911 to 1915, Douglas was director of religious work at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For the next six years, he was minister of the First Congregational Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1920, he moved to Akron, Ohio, to serve as the senior minister of the First Congregational Church of Akron until 1926. Later that year, he moved to Los Angeles for a pastorate.
Douglas served as pastor at St. James United Church in Montreal, Quebec before retiring from the pastorate to write full time. His biographer Louis Sheaffer comments that "he never stated publicly why he changed denominations."[citation needed]
Douglas's first novel, Magnificent Obsession, published in 1929, was an immediate success. Critics held that his type of fiction was in the tradition of the great religious writings of an earlier generation, such as Ben-Hur and Quo Vadis.[citation needed]
Douglas followed this with his novels Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Precious Jeopardy, Green Light, White Banners, Disputed Passage, Invitation to Live, Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal, The Robe and The Big Fisherman.
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Lloyd C. Douglas
Lloyd Cassel Douglas (August 27, 1877 – February 13, 1951) was an American minister and author. Although Douglas was one of the most popular American authors of his time, he did not write his first novel until the age of 50.
Douglas was born in Columbia City, Indiana. His father was a minister and the family lived for part of Douglas's boyhood in Monroeville and Wilmot, Indiana and Florence, Kentucky. In Florence, his father was the pastor of the Hopeful Lutheran Church.
After receiving a degree from Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio in 1903, Douglas was ordained in the Lutheran ministry. He served in pastorates in North Manchester, Indiana, Lancaster, Ohio and Washington, D.C.
After his ordainment, Douglas married Bessie I. Porch. They had two daughters together: Bessie J. Douglas, born about 1899, and Virginia V. Douglas, born about 1901.
From 1911 to 1915, Douglas was director of religious work at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For the next six years, he was minister of the First Congregational Church in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1920, he moved to Akron, Ohio, to serve as the senior minister of the First Congregational Church of Akron until 1926. Later that year, he moved to Los Angeles for a pastorate.
Douglas served as pastor at St. James United Church in Montreal, Quebec before retiring from the pastorate to write full time. His biographer Louis Sheaffer comments that "he never stated publicly why he changed denominations."[citation needed]
Douglas's first novel, Magnificent Obsession, published in 1929, was an immediate success. Critics held that his type of fiction was in the tradition of the great religious writings of an earlier generation, such as Ben-Hur and Quo Vadis.[citation needed]
Douglas followed this with his novels Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Precious Jeopardy, Green Light, White Banners, Disputed Passage, Invitation to Live, Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal, The Robe and The Big Fisherman.