Gwen Bristow

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1930
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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Gwen Bristow (September 16, 1903 in Marion, South Carolina – August 17, 1980 in New Orleans, Louisiana) was an American author and journalist.
Bristow became interested in writing while reporting junior high school functions for her local newspaper. After studying at Columbia University, she wrote for a number of literary magazines and journals. Eventually, she moved to New Orleans, and worked at the Times-Picayune. She became interested in longer forms of writing—novels and short stories—through her husband, screenwriter Bruce Manning, and published her first novel in 1929. Bristow reached the pinnacle of her career with the western romance Jubilee Trail, which became a bestseller in 1950, and was adapted to a moderately successful film in 1954. She continued to write novels and articles for magazines until her death in 1980.

Full Series List in Order

Plantation Trilogy

1 - Deep Summer (Jan-1937)
2 - The Handsome Road (1938)
3 - This Side of Glory (1940)

Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • The Invisible Host

    Eight people received the invitation. A beautiful society queen. A famous professor. A powerful business tycoon. A brilliant playwright. A renowned woman lawyer. An eminent politician. An ardent youthful radical. A glamorous stage and screen star. Al...

  • The Gutenberg Murders

    An ingenious killer with a penchant for rare books is targeting the Crescent City’s elite in this 1930s mystery by the authors of The Invisible Host.A distressing rumor is circulating through New Orleans that one of the city’s prized artifacts --...

  • The Mardi Gras Murders

    Murder and Mardi Gras together! Ain't we got fun?For years New Orleans has been enthralled by the secret society dedicated to Dis, Greek god of Inferno, whose membership of fifty is closely guarded from the press, and whose rites burlesque the proud ...

  • Two and Two Make Twenty-Two

    A woman in a red raincoat killed Linton Barclay.Paradise Island, the brightest spot of all playgrounds edging the Gulf of Mexico, caters gladly to those who can afford to pay well for their entertainment. Twelve miles from the mainland, it has, under...

  • Deep Summer

    Plantation Trilogy - 1

    Not long before the American Revolution, Judith Sheramy, a Puritan girl from New England, rode a flatboat down the Mississippi River with her family. On the river she met an adventurer, Philip Larne--cavalier and slave smuggler. The story of Judith...

  • The Handsome Road

    • / Historical Romance
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    Plantation Trilogy - 2

    An entire way of life on the brink of ruin! The Old South was a world of extremes, of stately mansions and beautiful hoop-skirted belles like Ann Sheramy Larne; a tumbledown shacks jammed with slaves, of poor whites like Corrie May Upjohn -- the t...

  • This Side of Glory

    • / Historical Romance
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    Plantation Trilogy - 3

    New York Times-bestselling author Gwen Bristow presents a captivating love story that dramatizes the struggle between the ways of the old Louisiana plantation families and those of the new twentieth-century South In 1912, Eleanor Upjohn sits with her...

  • Tomorrow Is Forever

    • / Historical Romance
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    Elizabeth is devastated when she receives a telegram from the War Office saying her husband has been killed. Desperate for a clean break, she moves to California and rebuilds her life. She marries a man destined for success in the burgeoning motion p...

  • Jubilee Trail

    The history of California in the mid-19th century comes alive in this captivating historical novel. Garnet Cameron, a fashionable young lady of New York, is leading a neat, proper life, full of elegant parties and polite young men, yet the prospect o...



  • Calico Palace

    THEY HAD COME TO SAN FRANCISCO TO ESCAPE THE PAST. Kendra, nineteen and beautiful, was looking for a man to help her forget her years as an unwanted child. Marny, audacious redhead, with a talent f or cards, wanted to win independence from her ...

  • Golden Dreams

  • Celia Garth

    A bustling port city, Charleston, South Carolina, is the crossroads of the American Revolution where supplies and weapons for the rebel army must be unloaded and smuggled north. From the window of the dressmaker’s shop where she works, lovely Celia...

  • The Mardi Gras Murder

    Reverie turns deadly when a secret society of New Orleans elites is infiltrated by a killer in this classic 1930s mystery.For years New Orleans has been enthralled by the secret society dedicated to Dis, Greek god of Inferno, whose membership of fift...

  • Two & Two Make Twenty-Two

    A gambling resort off the coast of New Orleans is in for stormy weather and deadly games in this 1930s crime novel by the authors of The Invisible Host.Twelve miles from the mainland, Paradise Island offers rich bon vivants the finest playground in t...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Gwen Bristow has published 14 books.

Gwen Bristow does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Two & Two Make Twenty-Two, was published in August 2022.

The first book by Gwen Bristow, The Invisible Host, was published in January 1930.

Yes. Gwen Bristow has 1 series.
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