Roscoe Arbuckle a feature film. Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle was born on March 24, 1887, in Smith Center, Kansas, one of nine children of Mary E. "Mollie" Gordon (d. February 19, 1898) and William Goodrich Arbuckle. He weighed in excess of at birth and, as both parents had slim builds, his father believed the child was not his. Consequently, he named the baby after a politician (and notorious philanderer) whom he despised, Republican senator Roscoe Conkling of New York. The birth was traumatic for Mollie and resulted in chronic health problems that contributed to her death 12 years later. When Arbuckle was nearly
Patrick Roscoe book in a decade. Stephen Henighan discusses Roscoe as one of a group of writers whose stories "eschew historical participation in favour of a turning inward or a retreat into a kind of eternal present." In 1996, he won a Western Magazine Award for his short story "The Last Casanova of Regina", originally published in "Grain". In 2008, he was one of 10 finalists in the Okanagan Short Story Contest. He won first place in the short-story division of CBC Radio's literary competition in 1990. Patrick Roscoe Patrick Roscoe is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and actor. Roscoe was