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...ridiculous; it's incredible." Outclassed by earlier prize-winners like William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Mann, by women novelists like Selma Lagerlof or Sigrid Undset who have won it before her, Pearl Buck would be placed by most critics below such U. S. possibilities as Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Van Wyck Brooks...
...Nobel Prize selections. In politically-conscious Europe Pearl Buck is famed for The Good Earth, for her pungent, telling attacks on dictators, for her tributes to the common people of China. In a broadcast to Sweden, modest Pearl Buck said simply that the award should have gone to Theodore Dreiser...
Toward the last third of the journal, when Homer is in his 40s, he begins reading Sherwood Anderson, Dreiser, Hemingway, confesses that his "whole attitude toward literature is undergoing a renascence." When, despite his sobered new outlook, he continues right up to his sudden end to be almost as dumb as ever, most readers will call his story a libel on even the most fatuous of would-be novelists...
...when books are banned it is usually by action of municipal authorities, as Boston's mayor once stopped the sale of Dreiser's American Tragedy, or as the mayor of Omaha, Neb. more recently clamped down on Mari Sandoz' Slogum House. In England books that come under official displeasure are usually withdrawn by the publishers; in European dictatorships their circulation is forbidden by the state. Recent book bans...
Causing a local tornado of protest, the latest issue of Life, eldest of the picture magazines, is making local history with its childbirth feature. Official comment in Boston and Cambridge was as bitter and varied as that nine years ago when Dreiser's book, "An American Tragedy," was banned in Suffolk County...