A. B. Guthrie's Birth Card: The Ace of Spades

In the record

Alfred Bertram "Bud" Guthrie Jr. (January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991) was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian known for writing western stories. The birth-card coordinate for January 13 is the Ace of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of A. B. Guthrie's 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — The Way West.

Pulitzer Fiction record

• 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — The Way West

A. B. Guthrie is on the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction list for The Way West (https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1950). A. B. Guthrie (Q278543, Wikipedia “A. B. Guthrie Jr.”) appears here as a person-scope Fiction winner. A. B. Guthrie is listed as the sole Fiction recipient for each year in this pack. Works in this pack for A. B. Guthrie: 1950 The Way West. A. B. Guthrie's English Wikipedia title is “A. B. Guthrie Jr.”, which is the sitelink used for the REST summary. Birth date 1901-01-13 is the Wikipedia infobox day for A. B. Guthrie, verified against Wikidata P569 1901-01-13 (match). Pulitzer.org bio date status for A. B. Guthrie is unavailable. The harvested card symbol for January 13 is A♠. A public death date of April 26, 1991 (1991-04-26) is listed on Wikidata P570 for A. B. Guthrie. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._B._Guthrie_Jr. is the Wikipedia article used for A. B. Guthrie. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for A. B. Guthrie. It only names the calendar coordinate for January 13 and the Fiction titles already listed for A. B. Guthrie.

The Ace of Spades coordinate

A. B. Guthrie was born January 13, 1901 (1901-01-13). Month 1 and day 13 give solar value 40, which is the Ace of Spades (The Truth Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1901 is unused, so A. B. Guthrie's 1901 birth year does not move the card. The Ace of Spades does not predict a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is not a verdict on A. B. Guthrie. Quoted system copy for the Ace of Spades, not a biography of A. B. Guthrie: You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard. Your mind is oriented toward finding what's real beneath appearances. You question everything. You're the one willing to challenge comfortable lies for uncomfortable truths. Harvested gifts listed for the Ace of Spades: Ability to penetrate illusions and see truth; Courage to question what others accept; Sharp thinking and analytical power; Natural integrity and honesty. Harvested life-direction line for the Ace of Spades: Your curriculum is learning that truth is more complex than you understand. You're learning humility about what you know.

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Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Alfred Bertram "Bud" Guthrie Jr. was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian known for writing western stories. His novel The Way West won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and his screenplay for Shane (1953) was nominated for an Academy Award.

A. B. Guthrie in the public record

His novel The Way West won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and his screenplay for Shane (1953) was nominated for an Academy Award. Guthrie was born in 1901 in Bedford, Indiana. When he was six months old he relocated with his parents to Montana, where his father became the first principal of the Teton County Free High School in Choteau. His father was a graduate of Indiana University, his mother from Earlham College at Richmond, Indiana. A constant reader, Guthrie tried to write while in high school, "fiction pretty much, some essays, but I majored in journalism. My father had been a newspaper man for four years in this little town in Kentucky, and I guess he thought it was the way to become a writer".:3 In 1919, Guthrie studied at the University of Washington for a semester, then transferred to the University of Montana, where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity and graduated with a degree in journalism with honors in 1923. He worked odd jobs for the next few years. In 1926, Guthrie took out a $300 bank loan and moved to Lexington, Kentucky, where he took a job at the Lexington Leader newspaper.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article A. B. Guthrie Jr. (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 2 of Clubs

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about A. B. Guthrie, and not a forecast of a Pulitzer.

Natural partnership and team-building ability

Alfred Bertram "Bud" Guthrie Jr. (January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991) was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian known for writing western stories.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: historian.

Also on the record

1. For the next 21 years he worked as a reporter, the city editor, and an editorial writer for the Leader.
2. Guthrie published his first novel Murders at Moon Dance in 1943.
3. In 1944, while still at the Leader, Guthrie won the Nieman Fellowship from Harvard, and spent the year at the university studying writing.
4. While at Harvard he made friends with English professor Theodore Morrison, "who knew so much about writing, probably more than I ever will.":3 Morrison mentored Guthrie and helped him transition from journalism to fiction.

Other Fiction winners with this card

• Jean Stafford — 1970 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — Collected Stories
• Larry McMurtry — 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — Lonesome Dove

FAQ

What is A. B. Guthrie's birth card?

The Ace of Spades. January 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. A. B. Guthrie's year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, novels, character, or fate.

Where do A. B. Guthrie's dates and Fiction credits come from?

Birth date 1901-01-13 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for A. B. Guthrie, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Pulitzer Prize for Fiction list, which cites Pulitzer.org year pages. The Fiction line is 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — The Way West. Pulitzer.org bio date status is unavailable. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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