Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Odyssey, The Canterbury Tales and Dante's Inferno. In 1953 Doubleday followed, with Anchor books. They were good to look at, with clean, modern covers, and offered (at 65? to $1.25 a volume) such fine old fare as Trevelyan's History of England, such first-rate modern fiction as Henry Green's Loving. Total sales of Anchor's 48 titles: 1,250,000. Other publishers watched nervously for a while, then hopped onto the bandwagon. Among them...
...only work of fiction in i.e. is an except entitled The Baumans from Hona Karmel's forthcoming novel. Miss Karmel's story deals with the survivors of the Nazi ghettos in post-war Poland; it evokes as well the experience of the ghetto itself, and of the pre-war life of a Jewish family. Specifically, we are confronted with the characterization of two individuals a mother and a daughter. Is it enough that Miss Karmel has attained a "skillful" delineation of these figures, a "striking" presentation of their personal dilema? Has she a right to utilize a human drama charged...
...senior partner of Houston's largest law firm, Dillon Anderson in recent years has branched into business as a director of banks, transit lines, Westinghouse and other industrial corporations. His method of unwinding is to travel by train, using the time to write fiction. In his first published novel, I and Claudie (1951), the adventures of two fun-loving Texas hoboes, Anderson gave Bobby Cutler a credit for "encouragement." A poker player, Anderson recently wrote a short story about a poker addict who, abhorring the status quo ante, always ups it. By driving for decisions and following them...
Both these books tell of adventure on the China coast, as anti-Communists go ashore to fight or foil China's new masters. One book is fiction, the other nonfiction, but both are based on long and firsthand experience of China's tragedy. Both books celebrate the unsung Asians who continue fighting Communism long after Western statesmen have put them down on the Red side of the world ledger...
...film makers, always expert at spinning a little fact into a lot of fiction, plan to go in for biography on an industrial scale. Forty biographicals (with plenty of box-office angles) are currently in the works, ranging from a close look at Moses to a better one at Lady Godiva. Other subjects: Van Gogh, Charles Lindbergh, Theda Bara, François Villon, Omar Khayyam ("The Loves of") and Jimmy Walker, the late mayor of New York City...