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...bald, white-whiskered popular biographer who looks like a country doctor is Gamaliel Bradford (Bare Souls, Wives, As God Made Them). Last week in the New York Times literary supplement he pondered U. S. education, decided it was "chaos," recommended a "clue which . . . may afford a certain amount of help. I mean the clue of biography." Though Biographer Bradford does not offer his own trade as a solution of all teaching problems (he admits it does not afford intellectual discipline), he says it has "the immense advantage of affording a natural link between the otherwise widely scattering and mutually repellent...
Biographer Bradford recalled that ten years ago Professor Ambrose White Vernon established at Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.) "the first distinct department of biography in this country and so far as I know in the world." Few years later President Ernest Martin Hopkins invited Professor Vernon to Dartmouth to conduct a similar department there. "Professor Vernon's interest and his instruction in biography do not turn upon what is merely gossipy and superficial, but upon the points of deeper significance. . . . Some of the most promising undergraduates have shown an eager interest and in many cases have gone out to propagate...
JOHN HENRY -Roark Bradford -Harper...
After Author Roark Bradford gained fame with his negroid Bible stories, Ol' Man Adam an' Ilis Chillun (on which Playwright Marc Connelly based his Pulitzer Prize play, The Green Pastures), he failed to add to it with This Side of Jordan, an unpleasantly realistic, unpleasantly tragic novel of Negro life. Now he is back again on the side of the angels with a rambling, episodic legend of the big black buck John Henry, who is to the Cotton Belt what Paul Bunyan is to the North Woods...
...Author. Roark Bradford, born on a plantation near the Mississippi River, grew up with Negroes, had one for nurse, many for playmates, went to their homes, churches, picnics, funerals. He received a degree from the University of California in 1917; when the War broke out he went soldiering, stayed in the Army till 1920. Then he worked on newspapers in Atlanta, New Orleans. Four years ago he quit work to write. His second published story, Child of God, won the O. Henry Memorial Award...