Martin Joseph "Tom" Freeman (1899 – 1969) was an American scholar of

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and novelist. Freeman taught at the University of Chicago and then as an Associate Professor of English at

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. His

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childhood account of growing up in the Midwest, ''Bitter Honey'' (1942), was awarded Ohio's

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.National News - Page 157 American Legion. Auxiliary - 1942 "Bitter Honey," by Martin Joseph Freeman. The Macmillan Company, $2.50. The experiences of an eleven-year-old boy in a small town in the horse-and-buggy age which, perhaps, are much the same as those of a small boy of the present time

Works

* ''The Murder of a Midget'', New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. 1931 * ''Murder by Magic'', New York : E .P. Dutton, 1932. * ''The Case of the Blind Mouse'', 1936. * ''A Text of Shelley's Prometheus Unbound'', Chicago, Illinois, 1937 * ''Bitter Honey'', New York, Macmillan Co., 1942. - winner of the Ohioana Award

References

1899 births 1969 deaths 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers American male novelists {{US-novelist-1890s-stub