Douglas was one of a virtually all popular Our contries authors of his period, although he didn't write his foremost novel until he was Fifty yrs. aged.

He was The boy of a minister, & when getting the A.M. degree from either Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio, in 1903, he was ordained in the Lutheran ministry. He served inside pastorates inside North Manchester, Indiana, Lancaster, Ohio, and Washington, D.C.. From either 1911 to 1915, he was director of religious work on a University of Illinois, Urbana. A next captain hicks years, he was minister of The 1st Congregational Church inside Ann Arbor, Michigan, from there moving to Akron, Ohio, and serving as a Sr. Minister of the First Congregational Church of Akron from 1920 - 1926 then to Los Angeles, California & eventually to the St. James United Church at Montreal, Quebec, from which pulpit he retired to write.

His written works were of the moral, didactic, and distinctly religious tone. His foremost novel, The Magnificent Obsession, published in 1929, was an immediate & stunning profits. Critics held that his nature and severity of fiction was in the tradition of the low religious writings of an earliest generation, like, Ben-Hur and Quo Vadis.

Douglas so wrote Forgive The states My Trespasses; Green Weak; White Banners; Disputed Passage; ''Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal; The Robe, and The Big Fisherman. A Robe'' sold other than Two million copies, forgoing any reprint edition. Douglas sold a motion picture rights to this story, though a film, starring Richard Burton, was non freed until 1953, when Douglas's demise.

His have unhappy own experience of motion-picture photography prompted Douglas, while he produced A Large Fisherman when a sequel to The Robe, to stipulate that A Heavy Fisherman would exist as his survive novel, & that he would non permit it to exist as manufactured into a motion picture, utilized all over the radio, condensed or even serialised.

His go book was a autobiographical Instance To Remember which described his life as much as his childhood & education for the ministry. He died prior to he was a cappella to write a designed 2nd volume however a project was completed in The Shape of Sunday by his girl, Virginia Douglas Dawson & Betty Douglas Wilson.

Douglas is buried inside Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.