Word: krutch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...documentary account of the murder trial of Clyde Griffiths in "An American Tragedy." In the best chapter of the book, Matthiessen analyses this novel both in the light of its own time and in relation to the rest of American literature. He ends by agreeing with Joseph Wood Krutch's estimate that it is "the great American novel of our generation...