Born: 19-Aug-1903
Birthplace: Chicago, IL
Died: 9-Aug-1978
Location of death: Stuart, FL
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Guard of Honor

Military service: US Army Air Corps (WWII)

Father: Henry William Cozzens, Jr. (b. 1866, d. 1920)
Mother: Mary Bertha Wood (b. 1875, d. 1953)
Wife: Sylvia Bernice Baumgarten (m. 31-Dec-1927)

    High School: Kent School, Kent, CT (1916-22)
    University: Harvard University (1922-24, dropped out)

    O. Henry Award 1931 for "A Farewell to Cuba"
    O. Henry Award 1936 for "Total Stranger"
    Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1949 for Guard of Honor
    William Dean Howells Medal 1960 for By Love Possessed

Author of books:
Confusion (1924, novel)
Cockpit (1928, novella)
The Son of Perdition (1929, novella)
S.S. San Pedro (1931, novella)
The Last Adam (1933, novel)
Castaway (1934, novel)
Men and Brethren (1936, novel)
Ask Me Tomorrow (1940, novel)
The Just and the Unjust (1942, novel)
Guard of Honor (1948, novel)
By Love Possessed (1957, novel)
Children and Others (1964, short stories)
Morning, Noon and Night (1968, novel)

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