Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Henry DeVere Stacpoole, 88, who gave up medical practice because he "would rather write fiction on a crust than have the best practice in Harley Street," eventually turned out some 50 novels, for 30 years was one of the most popular purveyors of old-fashioned romance (The Blue Lagoon; An American at Oxford); on the Isle of Wight, where he had settled down after leaving his native Dublin...
...this is handled with great sympathy and written as few living U.S. writers can write. In his first book of fiction, Author Agee (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men) has written prose that arouses the emotional responses of first-rate poetry...
Unlike most of the recent issues, the latest Advocate's contents are as flimsy as the magazine itself. There is some excellent poetry by writers whose excellence has already been established; the remainder is poor fiction and a piece of long and well-written criticism which seems to have no raison d'etre...
Concentrators in this field will find that distribution requirements within the department guide him through most of these periods. In addition, each period has been assigned a "type" of literature, which are, in chronological order, poetry, drama, fiction, criticism, and philosophy...
Barrel A-Rolling. The shotgun wedding of history and sex has produced enough incongruities in U.S. fiction to fill a literary museum of horrors. This one comes from Proud New Flags, the latest historical novel by F. (for Francis) van Wyck Mason.* His tetralogy on the Revolutionary War at sea has sold over 1,000,000 copies in all editions. With his new tetralogy on the Civil War at sea, Mason ought to do as well or better...