Word: basil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking informally before the members of the English 28 Club and their guests last night in Smith Halls Common Room, Mr. Basil King, the noted novelist, gave his answer to "Why Writers Write and Readers Read": "When I began to write, I thought that writers were superfluous and readers merely read to pass the time. I have since found out differently. Readers read to keep alive the lamp of their imagination, and writers write to feed that lamp...
...Basil King, the noted novelist, will speak on "Why Writers Write and Readers Read" at a meeting of the English 28 Club in the Smith Halls Common Room at 7.30 o'clock tonight. Mr. King, whose first book, "Griselds", was published in 1900, has since that time written many widely read novels such as, "Wild Olive", "The Street Called Straight", and "The Way Home...