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...Author. Authoress Seymour spent her British childhood in a strict Nonconformist atmosphere in which theatres and dancing were taboo. Unrestricted reading, however, left a loophole for Satan. After three years of co-educational schooling she made a living doing secretarial work, studying literature meanwhile under Sir Israel Gollancz at King's College. Married to a poet, poetically inclined herself, she started novel writing when her husband was off in the Air Force during the War. Almost a dozen novels followed, of which four have already been published in the U. S.: Three Wives, Youth Rides Out, False Spring...
...Archibald Joseph Cronin. A Scottish medico of 34, his writing apprenticeship was served in concocting such unlikely sellers as A History of Aneurism, Dust-Inhalation by Haematite Miners, First Aid in Coal Mines. He took a vacation last summer, wrote Hatter's Castle in some three strenuous months. Gollancz, first English publisher to see the MS, accepted it with cheers. So did the Book Society of London. Though Dr. Cronin served in the surgical corps during the War, has traveled widely, has been down 500 coal mines in the course of research work, he thinks his most exciting experience...