Word: elkins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PERSIS SMITH A Entry G. R. Porter A-11 B L. Mermell B-52 C P. B. Elkin...
...Biographer. J. Lewis May was born in London (1873) and lives there, but his family still consider themselves natives of Devonshire. After a number of years in France he became literary advisor and reader for Publishers John Lane and Elkin Mathews; was made general editor of Lane's English edition of the works of Anatole France, of whom he wrote a biography. Lane knew agnostic Author France and admired him, but not nearly so much as he does Newman. He married young, has one son, one daughter. His literary tastes are conservative; he also likes detective stories, loafing, smoking...