Word: helens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...similar misapprehension about the nature of a character seems to underlie Natalie Bider's Diana, the chaste teenager with whom Bertram thinks he is sleeping (while in fact Helen has substituted herself.) Diana's shift from a scatterbrained ingenue to a wordly wise young woman seems less the product of growth than of failure to choose one consistent interpretation of the role...
...DOUBLE IMAGE by Helen MacInnes. 309 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
Industrious Mrs. Highet's first casual attempt at fiction, titled Above Suspicion and published under her maiden name, Helen MacInnes, became a runaway bestseller and a first-rate film. Since then, periodically and with unhurried ease, she has sat down with pencil and paper and turned out such bestselling yarns of international intrigue as Assignment in Brittany, North from Rome, Decision at Delphi and The Venetian Affair. All told, her twelve novels have sold more than 4,000,000 copies and have been translated into 19 languages. Five have been sold to the movies...
TELL THE TIME TO NONE by Helen Hudson. 249 pages. Duffon...
Cowardice, pride, propriety, fear of fame-there are many reasons why writers choose to hide behind noms de plume. The author of this clean-cut gem of a first novel clearly was motivated by prudence. "Helen Hudson" displays such knowledge of faculty politics and makes the ambitions and jealousies of her professors and their wives so sadly true that it is obvious she occupies, or once occupied, her own glade in the groves of academe...