Word: hegger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memoirs. About the same time appeared the memoirs of D. H. Lawrence's wife, Frieda. While these memoirs spilled plenty of beans, at least they were withheld until their subjects were dead. Not so Half A Loaf, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel by Sinclair Lewis' exwife, Grace Hegger...
HALF A LOAF?Grace Hegger Lewis? Liveright...
...late Robert Louis Stevenson, suave preceptor, warned youths & maidens against taking a literary mate. Like a frenetic footnote to that polished advice comes Grace Hegger Lewis's case-history, Half A Loaf. Divorced from her famed husband Sinclair Lewis six years ago, Authoress Lewis has spent part of the interim preparing to heave her stone, which hits more birds than perhaps she meant...
...degree. He became a newsgatherer first in New Haven, later elsewhere. But in streetcars and on commuting trains he appeased something that was gnawing within him by writing fiction, mostly pot boilers. In 1914 he published Our Mr. Wrenn, his first novel. That same year he married Grace Livingstone Hegger, wandered with her from coast to coast, getting newspaper jobs and writing novels in his spare time. During this period he published The Trail of the Hawk, The Job, The Innocents, Free Air. Then he borrowed $500 from his father, retired from other work to a lodging house in Washington...
Author Lewis recently petitioned to be allowed to pay his divorced wife Grace Hegger Lewis $200 a month alimony instead of $1,000, said his income is less than $10,000 a year. She claimed that he earned $100,000 in 1929 (TIME...