Word: flavin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Remarried. Martin Flavin, 63, who won the New York Theater Club Medal for his play The Criminal Code (1929), later switched to novels and won the Pulitzer Prize for Journey in the Dark (1943); and third wife Cornelia Clampett Flavin, 51, who divorced him in 1944; in Carmel, Calif...
...Myron Brinig - Farrar & Rinehart {$3). Minneapolis-born Author Brinig has published 14 novels in the past 15 years (including Singermann, The Sisters, May Flavin). His new novel sug gests that he may be suffering from over production. You and I's 474 pages follow New Mexico-born Claire and Eric from childhood to marriage, taking in half the cities of Europe...
...Martin Flavin, for his American novel Journey in the Dark...
...projected six-volume epic novel about American life from Colonial days to the Civil War. In Thunderhead ($2.75), Mary O'Hara told, with delicate feeling for animals, a very human life story of a horse, a sequel to her My Friend Flicka. Martin Flavin's Harper ($10,000) prize novel, Journey in the Dark ($2.75), described the degrees by which social success disillusioned a social climber. William Saroyan's The Human Comedy ($2.75), lit with occasional passages of warm humor, became insipid with its determined intellectual baby talk...
...Transit U. S. A. (Stokes; $2.50) Author W. L. River leads simple-minded Curly Martin from California through Arizona deserts, a Missouri road gang, Chicago's skid road, Ohio industrial warfare to Manhattan in a vain search for the capitalist who unwittingly ruined Curly 's business. Martin Flavin's Mr. Littlejohn (Harper; $2.50) is a simple-minded capitalist who drifts from Manhattan to California in search of Truth. Like Curly Martin's his simpleness is more absurd than lovable, his roadside adventures magnificently uninspired...