Word: balzacian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided he needed an education, won a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Iowa, a Master's degree in Economics and Anthropology at Harvard. Onetime assistant professor of sociology at Smith College, he has published six textbooks. When he decided to become a novelist, he planned a Balzacian series on the U. S. panorama. Critics jeered at his third novel (The Man Who Cannot Die}, and Author Williamson made up his mind "to get off my literary high horse, to come down to earth and express myself simply." A fierce worker, he could easily write two novels...