Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, grizzled Bronx Democratic Boss Ed Flynn, who had just made his debut as an author (You're the Boss, TIME, Sept. 8), made a more characteristic sound. He hoped Tom Dewey would win the Republican presidential nomination because, he said: "I'm sure Truman can beat him in New York...
Lewis' new-found Christianity also introduced him to Charles Williams, the author he says has influenced his writing more than any other, living or dead. Williams was a scholarly, self-educated, Cockney-accented Londoner who died last year, leaving an astonishing assortment of essays, poetry and fiction that delighted a small circle of Christian intellectuals. His first novel, War in Heaven, told of a cops-&-robbers chase through modern England which followed when somebody turned up with the Holy Grail. The Williams books inspired Lewis to write a trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, That Hideous Strength) dealing...
...woman's head. He has written The Bright Promise in the first person feminine-as a wife's-eye view of an able, unstable husband whose career fluctuates between life on the dole and the brilliant editorship of a picture magazine. But despite the author's daring viewpoint, readers are not likely to know Amy Hardin Ellery any better than other heroines of women's magazine fiction...
...White Collar." Amy may be unremarkable and typical enough, but Husband Lyle is a Harvard A.B. (cum laude), son of a millionaire father who committed suicide in the '29 crash, and of a dipsomaniac mother with blue-dyed hair. By leaning heavily on these and other glamorous characters, Author Sherman spares himself the much more difficult task of making ordinary people interesting...
Test Tube Frolics. So-called scientific fiction of this sort is not the private property of pulps and comics. As Author Bailey shows in this survey of the literary imagination frolicking among test tubes and cam shafts, Tarzan, Superman and even Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle are novices and newcomers in the field...