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...woman her grandmother had warned her against. She married at 16, shed her husband nine years later, then drifted into journalism, writing a chatty column for $20 a week for Denver's Rocky Mountain News. She migrated to Greenwich Village in 1919, later reviewed books for Malcolm Cowley at the New Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Folk Ballads | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...century. Wallace Stevens '01 joined the staff. A young poet named Thomas Stearns Eliot '10 published poems in its pages a few years later. He was followed, in turn, by such literary luminaries as Conrad Aiken 'H. E. E. Cummings '15 (still writing in capital letters), Malcolm Cowley '19, and Archibald MacLeish...

Author: By Sarah Paul, | Title: New Directions on South St. | 11/3/1982 | See Source »

...Lorena Hickok succeeded in finding what radical social theorists have merely postulated to exist--that among us which is human. In taking to the home' of America, and then, reporting what she felt, Lorena Hickok avoided the flaw that undermined other 1930's writers, from John Steinbeck to Malcolm Cowley. No golden mountains, no grapes of wrath, no morality play--she gives us a vision of the America that peers out from that frail cover-girl's eyes. It's an image as haunting as it is compelling...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Tales of Distress | 4/28/1982 | See Source »

...salesman sell an average of three "sets of books" a day, work six days a week and retain 43 per cent of the profits from their sales, Cowley said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Company Recruiting Despite Ban By Harvard | 3/7/1981 | See Source »

...above that description. Morgan makes no attempt to judge Maugham's literary importance, preferring instead to defer to other writers like H.G. Wells, Henry James, and Theodore Dreiser, who said Maugham was "a great artist" and Of Human Bondage a work of genius. Morgan also cites critics like Malcolm Cowley, who thought Of Human Bondage Maugham's greatest work, and asked, "Why did he never climb back to the same level...

Author: By Sarah L. Mcvity, | Title: Maugham's Mirror Tricks | 4/15/1980 | See Source »

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