Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convertible, and Frank Yerby (The Foxes of Harrow) commutes between the Riviera and Long Island. Such fiction-factory owners as Erie Stanley Gardner live as well as factory owners...
...average income is $3,000.* Twice as many new novels are published today as in the early 1900s, but of the 1,300 published through November of this year, fewer than half will make a profit, i.e., sell 5,000 copies or more in bookstores. This year's fiction bestseller, Morton Thompson's Not As a Stranger, has sold slightly more than 175,000 copies (in comparison, Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit sold 450,000 copies in 1944; Harold Bell Wright's The Eyes of the World sold an advertised 750,000 copies in two months...
...book, in addition to a whack of the royalties, and a particularly expert shade may even materialize in his own right on the title page). Many writers, submitting to the trend, have become what might be called visible ghosts-they spend increasingly more time writing fiction and non-fiction to publishers' orders and specifications...
...Corps electrified French literary circles. Hailed as a minor masterpiece, the book was translated into nine languages, sold close to 3,000,000 copies, and earned for its precocious author, 20-year-old Raymond Radiguet, a secure place in French literature. Like many another convincingly told work of fiction, Radiguet's novel set many readers wondering how much of fiction was really fact. Nowhere did such speculation reach greater heights than in the Marne River town of Saint-Maur, where Radiguet had lived...
Clear trends in fiction were as absent as greatness. The novels were a mixed bag that included some good storytelling, an occasional commentary on contemporary life that reached the mark, an unceasing flow of hackwork by old, bestselling pros. Among the best, the most popular and the most interesting...