Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hawkshaws to point out that the fairy tale [about an eccentric actress who gave a party and forgot to mail the invitations] on which Billy Rose was anticipated by Evelyn Waugh [TIME, June 12] was not original with Mr. Waugh, either. In Hesketh Pearson's biography, Oscar Wilde [Harper; 1946], we find Wilde telling a florid version of it to a friend on whom he fobbed it off as a true story about one of his own family. And since Wilde was no stickler for pure originality, the tale was probably kicking around long before his time...
...juiciest plums a young writer can pluck is the $10,000 Harper Bros, novel prize, won this year...
...WITHOUT FACES (305 pp.)-Louis Budenz-Harper...
...MAVERICK QUEEN (246 pp.)-Zane Grey-Harper...
...books are coming from will puzzle many readers more than the maverick queen's bloody secret. Mrs. Zane Grey's answer: her in defatigable husband, who sometimes polished off a novel in two or three months of fast scribbling, was 15 to 20 manuscripts ahead of Harper's schedule. That could well mean another decade of easy readin' and hard ridin' before Zane Grey's zealous fans reach the end of the trail...