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Susanne, while still on the presses, won first Danish prize in the 1931 Inter-Scandinavian Novel Contest, might therefore be considered Denmark's Novel-of-the-Year. Author Buchholtz is comparatively unknown in the U. S., but not so is his translator, Swedish Litterateur Edwin Bjorkman...
Author Francis Stuart, 29, is the very model of modern Irish patriot-litterateur. His family, Ulster Unionists, schooled him at England's rugged Rugby. He became a Roman Catholic in 1920, joined the Irish Republican Army, was taken prisoner by Free State troops during the Dublin street-fighting of 1922, interned for 15 months. He married a niece of Maud Gonne MacBride whose soldier-husband, a Boer War gallant, was executed in Dublin after the 1916 rebellion and whose son Sean is now active in Irish Republican affairs. Author Stuart lives at Glendalough (Dublin suburb). Novelist Liam...
...midst of this curious controversy, from the peace of his porticoed yellow mansion "Avalon" in Princeton's Bayard Lane, emerged 79-year-old Dr. Henry Van Dyke, the community's resident Grand Old Man, minister, Wartime Navy chaplain, litterateur (Fisherman's Luck, The Man Behind the Book). He came not to comment on the alleged "smoothie complex" but he had heard that the town council was thinking of routing intercity busses down his and other residential streets. He came to protest. He appealed for the preservation of "the beauty, tranquillity and safety of Princeton, the most beautiful...
This time Mr. Cohan has chosen to act the role of a mature man-of-the-world who has been keeping a girl (Lee Patrick) for several years. Suddenly Miss Patrick takes up with a young litterateur (Clifford Jones) who infects her with a desire to write, and with a holy passion. Kindly Mr. Cohan tries to reason with her, then gives up. He arranges for a publisher to give her an advance of $5,000 on her first work. This does not seem to surprise Miss Patrick as much as it surprises writers in the audience...
...real dragon but a not easily satisfied litterateur in an increasingly commercial world, he writes TIME'S book reviews (but not this one) after persuasion away from The New Republic where he was a hardworking factotum. He lives in Princeton, N. J. with his wife Julie Cuyler Matthews and sons T. S. Jr. and John. Tennis is his game, A. E. Housman his poet, honesty in letters his main ambition. His first novel (145 pp.) is dedicated to Alfred Richard Orage, prophet in the U. S. of "The Harmonious Development...