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Stribling, T.S.

The American author T.S. (Thomas Sigismund) Stribling was born in the little town of Clifton in Tennessee. His father had been a military man, his mother came from Alabama where her family owned a property – during his childhood, Stribling often spent his summers there. He was educated at Huntingdon Southern Normal University in Huntingdon, Tennessee, graduating in 1899. He wanted, however, to w...

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