Word: dell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Critics. The New York Herald: " He [Mr. Dell] means well, and, doubtless, he thinks he is telling the whole truth, instead of a part of it, and that part out of focus. . . . A book of altogether admirable workmanship, of much keen insight, but also one that is dangerously askew...
...Author. Floyd Dell was born in Barry, Ill., in 1887. He has worked in factories, on farms, at odd jobs ? written poems, a number of one-act plays, essays on feminism, a book on education ? been literary editor of the Chicago Evening Post, editor of The Masses and The Liberator, special writer for various New York newspapers. He is married and lives at Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. Mr. Dell's previous novels are Moon-Calf (1920) and The Briary-Brush...
...Every Young Man Ought to Know. I fancy such things do not greatly worry Mr. Farnol. He takes the facts of life for granted and proceeds from that basis to write of the things which lead away from life. Only think what a book Carl Van Vechten or Floyd Dell might have written if either one of them had been, like Jeffery Farnol, a stagehand and a scene painter on Broadway for two years-or perhaps it would have cured them. At any rate, let us thank Heaven for the Jeffery Farnols, the Oppenheims, the Buchans, the McCutcheons...
...Floyd Dell is a slight, shy, sensitive man, essentially poet in temperament, but turned irrevocably novelist. He is a conservative by nature, I believe, but intellectually a radical, his life has been led among radicals. " Politics," he will tell you now, "have nothing whatever to do with letters." For that reason, he has turned his political ideas into critical channels and his ability to analyze our current literary product is appreciable. During many days and nights spent in his home, I have heard only one political discussion, and that one, to my untutored brain at least, as harmless...
...another with The Masses and The Liberator, but he likes to feel that his active editorial days are past. He has also written essays, poetry, plays, criticism. Two general books, one of them the excellent Were Ton, Ever a Child? were published before his first novel. Dell is a conscientious workman and a profound student of psychology. He has taught himself to write well and he is forever striving to learn more. I have always felt that he will one day rank as a major American novelist...