Word: glenway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Previous winners: Margaret Wilson's The Able McLaughlins, Anne Parrish's The Perennial Bachelor, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, Julian Green's The Dark Journey, Robert Raynold's Brothers in the West, Paul Horgan's The Fault of Angela, H. L. Davis' Honey in the Horn...
SUNS Go DOWN-Flannery Lewis- Macmillan ($2). Excellent characterization, recalling the tender humor of Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, of the author's doughty, imaginative, 90-year-old grandmother, "the first decent white woman in the Comstock District." A vivid piece of Americana covering the era of Virginia City, Nev., from its fabulous boom days of 40,000 families to its present ghostly desertion...
...smart or portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back on his collection Anthologist Van Doren proudly says: "American...
...Rotarian. Can't you. he said, make it 80%. No. said she regretfully. I can't.'' Of Ezra Pound her criticism is even more cavalier: "She said he was a village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not. not." Glenway Wescott "at no time interested Gertrude Stein. He has a certain syrup but it does not pour." But she thinks F. Scott Fitzgerald "will be read when many of his well known contemporaries are forgotten...
...Publishers Harper & Bros, are banking on the book's attracting a wider attention than Rochester's. They paid Author Horgan $7,500 and royalties for his book, hope it will sell as many copies as previous Harper Prize Novels (Anne Parrish's The Perennial Bachelor, Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, et al.). Judicious readers will rate The Fault of Angels as a moderately entertaining, competent picture of a minor artistic phenomenon...