Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FICTION...
Through most of 1950, sales of fiction lagged behind nonfiction. It was a reversal of the usual order, but a look at the novels provided at least a partial explanation. The Costains and the Yerbys had their moments, but not the gaudy ones of old, and even the Du Mauriers and the Cronins issued invitations to boredom. British Critic V. S. Pritchett feared that leisure had become so rare and expensive that creative writers no longer had a chance to do good work. But more than a lack of leisure was responsible for the famine: there was a lack...
Cardinals & Crackups. The year's most popular book, fiction or nonfiction, was a fat, slick novel about a young priest's spectacular rise in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Commonplace, often dull, Henry Morton Robinson's The Cardinal nevertheless found nearly 600,000 customers, of whom about three-fourths chose the paper-covered edition...
...FICTION...
People looking for final answers in books found disappointingly few in the 1950 crop-though there was plenty of advice on the market and plenty of expert individual testimony of the I-came-to-realize variety. Actually, the non-fiction book that most people carried home from the bookstores was The Baby, the latest of the wacky $1 picture books to break into the big money (325,000 sold to date...