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Article: John Bartlow Martin, 71, nonfiction novelist, dies
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 4, 1987
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John Bartlow Martin, pioneer of the nonfiction novel who wrote
the comprehensive biography of Adlai E. Stevenson and was ambassador
and special presidential envoy to the Dominican Republic, died
yesterday at 71 in his native Highland Park.
A free-lance writer, Mr. Martin crafted speeches for presidents
and public figures. He was a staff writer for the Saturday Evening
Post, a biographer and a diplomat.
He spent his life observing, then writing about events and
personalities surrounding him. He produced 16 books.
The prodigious writer had to cut his two-volume biography of the
late presidential contender Stevenson from his original 10,000 to
2,000 manuscript pages.
Mr. Martin began ...