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Among the former Fellows of the Foundation in creative writing are Stephen Vincent Benet, whose book "John Brown's Body" written as a Fellow won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Harold Lamb, whose book on the Crusades has recently been published and has been chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club for March
...Author. Author Harold Lamb wrote this book on a Guggenheim Fellowship-($2,500 for one year), followed the path of the Crusaders through Syria. Other books: White Falcon, Marching Sands, House of the Falcon, Tamerlane, Genghis Khan. The Crusades is the March selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...Author. Author William R. Burnett is the first U. S. writer to have his first two books selected by book-of-the-month club. Born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1899, he went to Miami Military Institute. Ohio State University (for one semester). He thought of becoming a prizefighter, an actor, a jazzbandsman. When he decided to be a writer, he realized that he had to get a job, became a statistician in Ohio's Department of Industrial Relations. He is married, lives in Los Angeles, is writing another novel, to be published next fall...
...daille de Léopold II. Since 1921 he has spent alternate years in France and the U. S. lecturing at Columbia, Chicago, Northwestern, Iowa State universities. Other Fa books: A Panorama of Contemporary French Literature, The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America at the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Since Victor Hugo: French Literature of Today. Franklin was the December choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...
...bless the gods who wrought her.' Last March John Macrae, president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), called the Book-of-the-Month Club "an octopus that sucks away the life blood of the book business." His specific charges: i) Club judges were influenced in book selections by the Club management; 2) discount rate of book purchasing by the Club sometimes exceeded its announced rate; 3) the Club's purpose was misleading. Piqued, the Club sued President Macrae for libel, asked $200,000 damages. Admitting he was "wrong," President Macrae last week retracted his charges. The Club dropped...