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...Author???Publishers Doubleday, Doran announce that The Forge is the first of a cycle in which Author Thomas Sigismund Stribling?will show "the upheaval of a whole civilization." A Tennessean but not an unreconstructed Southerner, Stribling* has written of the Civil War with malice toward none, with flashes of charitable humor for most. Other books: Birthright, Teeftallow, Bright Metal, Backwater...
...Author??? Pierre Loving, 37, cosmopolitan Manhattanite, has lived much abroad. He knows intimately his left-wing Paris, Berlin, Vienna. Keen on his subject, thorough, Loving visited every spot where Baudelaire is known or supposed to have been, made many a minor find exciting to scholars. Then he settled down on the Riviera to write his book, but never missed a chance of watching Suzanne Lenglen play tennis, of dancing with her. Well-known as a critic, he has also written a play, The Stick-Up. He is now at work on a long critical study of Baudelaire's work, which...
...Author??? William Faulkner, 34, small, dark, of a distinguished Southern family (Great-grandfather William Faulk ner wrote the once famed romantic novel, The White Rose of Memphis'), lives in Oxford, Miss. During the War he served as lieutenant in the Canadian Flying Corps, crashed once, hurt his foot. Other books: Soldier's Pay, As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury...
...Song by Sousa's Band. . . . She is as bouncing, effervescent, indomitable, cyclonic, ululating and incredible as her literary style. . . . There is a high wind about Amy that blows your hat off." Her successor is Lloyd Lewis, author of Myths After Lincoln, publicity director for Balaban & Katz cinemansion chain, co-author???with the Daily New's Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith?of Chicago: The History of Its Reputation...
...Author. John Herbert Quick was born to his destiny "near Steamboat Rock, Grundy County, Iowa." After living most of his life in Iowa he is now, at 63, a large-landed resident of West Virginia. His interest and energies?as schoolmaster, lawyer, editor, author???have been in- tense and abundant, centering chiefly on history, politics and the lot of the farmer. His public service has ranged from counsel for the Citizens Committee of Sioux City, when he "prosecuted boodlers" in 1894, to membership on the Federal Farm Loan Board (1916) and head of the Far East Red Cross Commission...