Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year found the large public they deserved. As 1951 drew to a close, Rachel Carson's triumph of popular science, The Sea Around Us, headed the nonfiction bestsellers, and Herman Wouk's clear-eyed novel about the war at sea, The Caine Mutiny, topped the fiction list. But the biggest single phenomenon was the success of the paperbound reprints. With about 100,000 drugstores, newsstands and bookstores displaying them, the paper-bounds sold the staggering total of 231 million copies-or about two for every man, woman & child in the U.S. over the age of ten. Reprints...
...FICTION...
Wherever publishers and editors gathered, the question of the year was: What is going to happen to the novelists? One worried answer was that they would soon stop writing novels and take to better-paid magazine stories, or quit fiction entirely. For the fact was that many a good novel, even when kindly reviewed, was far from being a moneymaker. Apart from book-club distribution, only about three or four novels sold more than 100,000 copies. Many young writers seemed to be aiming for the popular market and making a botch of it, or trying to build novels...
English novels usually look good on the U.S. side of the Atlantic, because only the best of them are imported. Actually, British fiction in 1951 was not much better, overall, than the U.S. variety. Complained the Times Literary Supplement: "The truth is that the greater part of the fiction that is on sale to the public is as simple a narcotic as tobacco...
...FICTION...