Ross Lockridge Jr., a Great American Tragedy
In 1948, Ross Lockridge Jr. died by suicide in Bloomington just months after his best-selling novel,
Raintree County, was published. In 2014, Doug Storm interviewed two of Lockridge’s sons for
Interchange, his show on WFHB. Here, Storm writes about the sons’ conflicting opinions on the suicide and the assessment of
Raintree County as the Great American Novel.
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