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Philadelphia gave minor recognition to some major authors. James T. Farrells Studs Lonigan (published in three volumes, 1932, '34, '35), Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road (1932), William Faulkner's Wild Palms (1939) and the late Ross Lockridge's Raintree County (1948) were among some 5,000 books seized by the police, who explained that they had had complaints from "parents, teachers, and ministers that these obscene books were coming into the hands of schoolchildren...
...Experts. Even worse than the news awards, Stewart thinks, are the Pulitzers for arts & letters. The Pulitzer board appoints "expert jurymen" to advise it on these prizes, but frequently ignores their recommendations. Some Pulitzer-scorned novelists: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passes, William Faulkner. Concludes Stewart: "The awards have rarely erred in the direction of courage and unconventionality, and only occasionally in the direction of fine taste...
Retorted Robert Charbonneau, Montreal writer and publisher: "Let the facts talk. If Americans do not like literature, how then explain the success of writers like Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Thomas Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill...
...Flowering of the South-William Faulkner...
...first President of the paper was Mr. Francis Child Faulkner '74. The other editors on the original board, all members of the class of 1874, were Messrs. Eugene Nelson Aston, Henry Alden Clark, Samuel Belcher Clarke, Thomas Corlies, George Erwin Haven, Edward Higginson, Charles Austin Mackintosh, Houry Childs Merwin, and Calvin Proctor Sampson. Of these first editors, only four Messrs. Clark, Clarke, Merwin, and Sampson are alive today...