Word: gasparotti
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago Mrs. John Gasparotti, wife of the chief engineer of the City Ice & Fuel Co. of Moberly, Mo. (pop. 13,772) got an idea for a novel. Mornings, after her four children were off to school, she hustled through the housework by 9:30, wrote until a lunch deadline at 11:30. Afternoons she could sometimes squeeze in a couple of hours more. The book soaked up distractions the way butter soaks up the flavor of fish in the icebox. Odd-moment writing gave her prose an odd-moment style...
...three years, two rewritings-a period as hectic as one long house cleaning-Mrs. Gasparotti got it to come out right and sent it off under her maiden name, Elizabeth Seifert, to the Dodd, Mead-Redbook Magazine $10,000 novel contest. The day the news came she had won, she and the children "just sat down and looked at each other." That night her husband "didn't sleep a wink and I didn't get much rest myself...
Last week, with publication of Mrs. Gasparotti's prizewinner, Young Doctor Galahad (Dodd, Mead, $2.50), readers could admire not only her industry, but a good piece of popular fiction as well. The story of an idealistic young doctor in a small-town hospital-not Moberly, protests Author Seifert, although "I cannot get people to believe it"-Young Doctor Galahad is better than the usual run of popular fiction because of the author's earnestness...
...Magazine novel contest, attended a big luncheon in her honor at which Hendrik Van Loon, Pearl Buck and other literary notables spoke, hurried back to her home town of Moberly, Mo. to start work on another novel. The wife of a refrigeration engineer (her real name is Mrs. John Gasparotti), Prize-winner Seifert won over 1,200 contestants with Young Doctor Galahad, a story of a small-town physician, planned to use her winnings to educate her four children. For herself she bought a hat, a dress, a pair of shoes, a new typewriter. Said Moberly's mayor...
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