MacKinlay Kantor worked as the editor of the “Webster City Daily News” during his childhood. He had already written his first collection of poems at 17-years-old. During World War II, Kantor reported from London as a war correspondent for a Los Angeles newspaper. He then won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for his novelAndersonville, about the Confederate prison camp.

Kantor later worked as a major novelist and screenwriter. The filmsThe Best Years of Our Lives which won 7 Oscars in 1946,Gettysburg andIf the South Had Won the Civil War were made based on his scripts. His novels mainly focused on the American Civil War, and organized crime in 1920s Chicago.

The Voice of Bugle Ann was published as a book in 1935 and was made into a movie the following year with Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O’Sullivan. The story is about a fox hunter and a sheep farmer in rural Missouri whose conflicts escalate when the best dog in the pack called “Bugle Ann” disappears.