Word: hurst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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GREAT LAUGHTER-Fannie Hurst-Harper...
...dialectic joker in it. A sequel to her first book, A Stone Came Rolling reintroduces Ishma, the hillbilly Judith; her physical but saintly husband Britt, et al. In tone and texture a kind of reincarnation of the works of Gene Stratton Porter, with Rose O'Neill and Fannie Hurst thrown in, A Stone Came Rolling is a strange mixture of unabashed sentiment and social indignation. When Britt moved down into North Carolina's Piedmont to farm, his easygoing charm, church-going habits and knowledgeable affection for the soil would soon have admitted him to honorable citizenship...
When Editor O'Brien began his work, Sherwood Anderson was almost unknown and Fanny Hurst got into an early collection with an ecstatic little tale about Russian refugees who found New York a haven from Tsarist oppression. Struggling against the limitations imposed on authors by the conventions of popular magazine fiction, Editor O'Brien called attention to the work that was then appearing in little literary magazines, boldly declared that the best short stories were being written by writers that few people had ever heard of. He reprinted the early work of Waldo Frank and Ruth Suckow, seemed...
Struthers Burt was there, and Fannie Hurst, William Rose Benét, Margaret Widdemer, Burton Rascoe, Henry Seidel Canby. Many a guest had won a gold or silver badge or at least honorable mention for a snapshot, drawing or bit of verse published by "St. Nicholas League." Equally distinguished were the invited guests who sent regrets. Among them: Carolyn Wells ("who probably wrote more for St. Nicholas than anyone you know"); Laurence Stallings (who "was never a contributor to St. Nicholas and spent most of my time reading trashy literature"); Phil Stong (who in boyhood was a "veteran Youth...
...gaudiness will find little to excite them in This Week. Printed in color gravure, This Week is edited by Mrs. William Brown Meloney, genteel white-haired editor of the New York Herald Tribune's magazine (TIME, Oct. 8). First issue includes fiction by Sinclair Lewis, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst; articles by Britain's Lord Strabolgi, Scientist Roy Chapman Andrews, Artist Neysa McMein -big names which the average individual Sunday newspaper could not conveniently...