Word: halper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author. A semi-legendary character, Kenneth Fearing has figured in far more novels than he has written. (The Hospital is his first.) In Albert Halper's Union Square he figures as the drunken poet. But, "Hell," declares Fearing, "I've been a character in some good novels"-meaning W. L. River's The Death of a Young Man, Margery Latimer's This Is My Body...
...page prose anthology designed for hostesses whose guests ask: ''Have you anything to read?" This answer includes the work of 21 authors: two novels (Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale, Anne Parrish's All Kneeling): short stories by Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, Albert Halper; Max Beerbohm's famed Christmas Garland, Governor Wilbur Cross's 1936 Thanksgiving Proclamation, characteristic arch Woollcott comments...
...CHUTE-Albert Halper-Viking ($2.50). This story of life in a big Chicago mail-order house is more powerful, more understanding, than Author Halpers previous novels (Union Square, The Foundry) but his ambition still surpasses his ability...
CREATING THE MODERN AMERICAN NOVEL-Harlan Hatcher-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). A broad academic survey of contemporary novelists from William Faulkner to Albert Halper, together with an explanation of current techniques and trends...
WRITTEN by a young man of varied experiences, this second published novel brings new laurels to the already famous Albert Halper. Not quite as vivid or moving as his first novel "Union Square" this new work demonstrates the author's ability to delineate characters and to communicate to his readers an atmosphere that is natural and real...