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Born (July 19, 1896) in Cardross, Scotland, Author Cronin had a fatherless boyhood full of hard labor and poverty, much like Father Chisholm's. He pulled himself out of it with the help of Carnegie Foundation scholarships and his uncle, a poor, kindly Catholic priest (the model for Father Chisholm). By working until he often dropped exhausted, Cronin became a doctor. But he really wanted to paint or write. Hatter's Castle enabled him to give up medicine: he has never practiced since...
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