Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Voluntary Exiles. Some Negro artists have done impressively well. Writer Chester Himes, 49, from Jefferson City, Mo., last week won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière for his novel, La Reine des Pommes, a roman noir or dark-toned crime story that was hailed by Author Jean Giono as "the most extraordinary novel I have read in a long time," and praised by Jean Cocteau as "a prodigious masterpiece." Sculptor Harold Cousins, from Washington, D.C., has lived nine years in Paris, sold a sculpture last month to the Claude Bernard Gallery, and has been commissioned...
Philadelphian William Gardner Smith, author of Last of the Conquerors, a study of Negro G.I.s in Germany, lives in a working-class quarter in Paris where Americans are seldom seen. He feels that in the U.S. "one wastes too much time being angry. Life here is more natural, more leisurely. In discussions with French people, they never say, 'How do you, a Negro, see this?' They simply ask, 'How do you see it?' In Paris you forget the color of your skin...
...story of Creation as the Bible tells it, says Author Robert Graves, ain't necessarily so. In fact, the Book of Genesis has the story so mixed up that the creation of Eve from Adam's rib, for instance, is really the misreading of a picture of one man killing another with a curved knife (hence the rib) in a quarrel over a woman...
...Author of a recently published philosophical study, Induction and Hypothesis, Barker will teach a middle group lecture course dealing with the philosophy of science, emphasizing methods of scientific induction...
Kronenberger is on a year's leave of absence from Brandeis University, where he is Sophie Tucker Professor of Theatre Arts. He has been an editor of Time since 1938 and is the author of the recently published Marlborough's Duchess...