Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II fighter pilot whose sexy blood-and-thug detective thrillers have netted him handsome royalties, announced that he had become a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. He had discovered a greater story in the Bible, he said, "than you or I will ever find in fiction." Convinced that the type of books he has turned out have contributed to the "moral breakdown of the present generation," he intends to clean up his writing...
...want to know the real reason why I push my hair down on my forehead? Because I have two cowlicks. If I didn't push my hair forward, it would make me look as though I had two feathery horns." What about the charge that present-day fiction is decadent? "If what some young writers are writing today is decadence, then let's have more...
Adventures in Two Worlds is a selection of such stories. All of them are true, most are charged with a strong dose of moral philosophy, and most read as easily as Author Cronin's best fiction. They also constitute the autobiographical confessions of a man who, like a true Scot, has always combined a passion for material success with a deep distrust of the pride of spirit that often comes with...
...entirely possible that Louis Kronenberger, critic, literary historian and theater editor of TIME, has tucked an urbane moral or two into this story of compulsive acquisitiveness. But the moral never bulges the story out of shape. In an age of lugubrious fiction, Author Kronenberger has produced a deft and witty little novel in the best tradition of high farce...
...usual, one of the leading exports of the busy South this season has been fiction. Last week there were three new books on the market, in three emphatically different styles, each with something to recommend...