Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...title to Tan, changed it from a true-confessions monthly to a service magazine for Negro women. In its first issue, Tan has everything from articles on "How Club Women Should Dress" and "Teach Your Child to Value Money" to fashions, health, home furnishings and recipes. By running fiction he expects to hold on to his old readers, add thousands of Negro housewives, who will now have a service magazine of their...
...write a book about my people [family]." He got around to it in 1951. Steinbeck's intention was to write a story that would tell his sons, now aged eight and six, about their forebears and the Salinas Valley in California where they settled. But on the way, fiction ran riot and took over from fact so brazenly that much of the story is hardly fit reading for moppets...
CONTENTS: Individual and social values are studied through the literary forms of history and drama in the fall term, fiction and philosophy in the spring...
...Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk's fine novel of the Navy's war in the Pacific, has turned out to be the hardiest fiction bestseller since Lloyd Douglas' The Robe (1942). The Douglas novel stayed on the Publisher's Weekly list of five top fiction sellers for 32 months. Caine is now in its 17th month. It's sales to date: 325,000 copies (The Robe sold nearly...
CONTENTS: Individual and social values are studied through the literary forms of history and drama in the fall term, fiction and philosophy in the spring...