Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fiction is a clarifying agent," Journalist-Novelist John Mersey (The Wall, A Bell for Adano) wrote in the Writer's Book. "It makes truth plausible ... Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live...
...that lesser studios crank out regularly on small, starless budgets. Such high-priced talent probably seemed worth using while the story was still an idea based on an authentic wartime scheme: the smuggling of rubber out of Japanese-held Malaya. But the picture beats the basic idea into pulp fiction...
Author Keogh is no exception. A granddaughter of Teddy Roosevelt, she now lives in Paris with her painter-husband, but she used to live on Meg's East Side. In her first novel she has ventured into one of fiction's most difficult areas: the amoral, grotesquely furnished mind of childhood. Few writers have explored it successfully; Meg is not in the same class with Richard Hughes's Innocent Voyage or A. L. Barker's Innocents (TIME, March 22, 1948). Author Keogh knows Meg, all right, but mostly from the outside, and her startling little novel...
...Advocate" bats about 500 against this problem. Shying away from its recent preoccupation with non-fiction, it groups six short stories, most of which are surprisingly neat, precise, and cleanly written. Three of them cut a little deeper than straight surface description, and these are very good...
Wrath & Terror. Unhappily, Author Hersey chooses to tell the story in novel form, and employs one of the oldest and least effective technical tricks for giving fiction the authentic tang of fact: he pretends that he is merely the editor of papers written by Eyewitness Noach Levinson. This gabbiest of notetakers is supposed to have lived out the days of wrath and terror pen in hand, documenting the horror minute by minute, until he had built up a jumbo collection of manuscript and clippings filling 17 iron boxes and a number of parcels. These he buried before slipping away through...