Analysis Of A Stranger In The Kingdom, By Howard Frank Mosher

Howard Frank Mosher was an American writer that wrote literary fiction set in the North East. Mosher was born in Kingston, New York to Helen Emily Trapp and Howard H. Mosher. He referred to his hometown as a ghost town, a dying mill town where he spent most of his happy memories secluded behind his house catching trout from as early as four years. His father was a schoolteacher with wanderlust who moved the family more than ten times before Howard joined high school. However, the moving around had one silver lining as if they had never moved so much he would never have met his future wife in Cato, New York. Writing of his meeting with Phillis Claycomb he said that he was sitting in his school room one day when he looked up from his book to see slender blonde with strawberry hair and a pretty face and the sweetest of …show more content…
Jim Kinnesson is happy when he turns thirteen though he never expected his life to change so drastically when a black preacher and his son immigrate to the town. While they are generally accepted, there are many that treat them with racist attitudes given that they are the first black people seen that far north in years. Things turn for the worse for the black family when a girl that has been adopted by the minister turns up murdered with the minister the lead suspect. Charlie who is Jim’s brother believes the man is innocent and takes the case. But before he can prove him innocent he may need to resolve the mystery of who may be responsible. A Stranger in the Kingdom is a novel of ignorance, family ties, religion, and prejudice that ends with lasting change to the Northern Kingdom.

Northern Borders is a novel cataloguing Mosher’s nostalgia for life in Kingdom County of Vermont. Six year old Austen Kitttredge had left his home in 1948 after the death of his mother to go live in Lost Nation township where his grandparents had a