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Word: fictioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern fiction's psychological jungle, her homespun plot seems both soothing and revolutionary. John Wood, trusted employee of a land-company, is regarded as a paragon of virtue in his town of some 2,000 people. He is handsome beyond compare, a superintendent of the Sunday school, and gives the devotion of a medieval knight to his chronically sick wife. His son Philip is a senior in high school and is, if anything, a cut above the old block-handsome, kind, courteous, his mother's protector, his school's hero and his minister's pride. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How Real Were the Virtues | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...FICTION 1. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (1 )* 2. Exodus, Uris (2) 3. Lolita, Nabokov (4) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 5. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6) 6. From the Terrace, O'Hara (7) 7. Mountolive, Durrell 8. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence 9. Trumbull Park, Brown 10. Four Stories, Undset NONFICTION 1. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (1) 2. Only in America, Golden (2) 3. 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone (5) 4. What We Must Know About Com munism, Harry and Bonaro Overstreet (3) 5. How I Turned $1,000 into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, may 11, 1959 | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

...course will cover the full scope of Civil War literature, including fiction, poetry, military memoirs, diaries, and letters. In presenting his material, Wilson said yesterday, "I expect to read and then talk to the class directly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wilson to Instruct Two Courses On Civil War Writings, Language | 5/6/1959 | See Source »

Ironically, they find the gold, but by then any one of them would have traded his share for a tin of beans. First to die is the child; then, in some of the most dreadful descriptions in recent fiction, the others go. Only the former commander of the soldiers is left, and he is reduced to cannibalism. With all its obvious symbolism, its irony, its implicit plea for man's humanity to man, Death in That Garden will best be remembered as a tale of adventure brought off with literary flair and an almost savage imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Hell | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

First prize in the fiction category was split between Kurt V. Blankmeyer '59 and M. Richard Robinson '58-4, who received awards of $85 each. A special award of $40 in this category went to John R. Drucker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett House Gives Four Writing Awards | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

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