Long Fiction:
Petenera’s Daughter, 1926
Crescendo, 1928
The Richest Woman in Town, 1932
The Gray Man Walks, 1936
Kings Row, 1940
Floods of Spring, 1942
Victoria Grandolet, 1943
Parris Mitchell, 1948 (completed by Katherine Jones Bellamann)
Poetry:
Cups of Illusion, 1923
The Upward Pass, 1928
The son of George Heinrich and Caroline Bellamann, Heinrich Hauer Bellamann, as he was christened, first trained and achieved a successful career as a musician before and after becoming known as a writer. After studying under Isidor Philipp and Charles-Marie Widor, Bellamann held posts of importance at Chicora College for Women (1907-1924), the Juilliard Music Foundation (1924-1926), and the Curtis Institute of Music (1931-1932). He was also editor of the music periodical Overtones. Probably it was his interest in music that led him to poetry, for his verse shows the influence of his long study of the music of Claude Debussy.
In 1907, Bellamann married a woman who encouraged him as a novelist and who herself became a novelist. After Bellamann’s sudden death of a heart attack in 1945, Katherine Jones Bellamann completed her husband’s last, unfinished novel, Parris Mitchell, a sequel to Kings Row, the book that made Henry Bellamann famous. This novel, with its large cast of characters, shows Bellamann’s own peculiar and successful blend of horror story, historical sociology, and Freudian psychology. The book became the basis for a sensationally successful motion picture.