Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glenway Wescott of Wisconsin had lived in France for four years, was one of America's two or three most sensitive stylists and most promising novelists. The Pilgrim Hawk is his first volume of fiction since that year. It marks the end of several paralyzed years during which, work as he might, Wescott was unable to write novels at all. Says he now, "I have a great many stories to tell. If this simple story is as good as I hope, it will be a fresh start...
Mexico, fact and fiction, is the rest of the program. The fiction is a strange and rather original story called "Rangers of the Frontier." But don't let the name fool you; it's no conventional western. The fact is the March of Time's say-so on what's up south of the Rio Grande, another contribution to the general chaos and confusion that is U. S. A.'s concept of its 'good neighbours.' But after all, if the Mexicans don't seem to have a very clear idea of what they're doing, how can the March...
...pattering spoor across 80 years, through the wilds of Canada, the studios of Paris, the publishing business of Manhattan. Young Seton grew up in Ontario. He wanted to be a naturalist, but his father ("the most selfish person I ever heard of or read of in history or in fiction") wanted him to be an artist. So Seton straddled both careers, became rich & famous. Studying art at London's Royal Academy School, he planned a book on the birds of Canada, years later had his method of classification adopted by master Ornithologist Frank M. Chapman. He illustrated Chapman...
Rudyard Kipling acknowledged Seton's influence on his Jungle Books. Seton's Wild Animals I Have Known became a lucrative best-seller in 1898, the model for scores of animal stories. Seton claimed that his stories, unlike such tales as Reynard the Fox, gave "in fiction form the actual facts of an animal's life and modes of thought." Many doubted this, and a great controversy over "the Nature Fakers" began in 1904 when John Burroughs, in The Atlantic Monthly, abused Seton and his disciples as frauds and phony naturalists. Ornithologist Chapman, Novelist Hamlin Garland, Sportsman Teddy...
With descriptions of a trip into North China that puts fiction to shame, the globe-trotter mentioned Russia's effect in the present war. A large part of China's arms have been flown into this region, but contrary to popular belief, the main route for Russian imports is the Burma Road...