Word: lonigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Farrell's Studs Lonigan trilogy, for all its elephantine gait and structure and its lack of narrative sense, had the freshness of its tough Chicago South Side material, observed with accuracy and set down with passion. Since then, Farrell has been dishing up the same old Irish stew without so much as adding a fresh onion. The Road Between shuttles between Chicago and the leftish intellectual world of New York in 1932. Aspiring Writer Bernard Carr, who works for an undertaker, has eloped with his employer's daughter and settled down in Manhattan to write. The Road...
...Philadelphia, James T. Farrell resented the fact that his dogged Studs Lonigan novels were among the books seized by police-department moralists (TIME, April 5). He and his publisher sued three department officials for illegal seizure, figured the damage done him was about $100,000 worth...
Philadelphia gave minor recognition to some major authors. James T. Farrells Studs Lonigan (published in three volumes, 1932, '34, '35), Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road (1932), William Faulkner's Wild Palms (1939) and the late Ross Lockridge's Raintree County (1948) were among some 5,000 books seized by the police, who explained that they had had complaints from "parents, teachers, and ministers that these obscene books were coming into the hands of schoolchildren...
...body, in the early fights, is reminiscent of Chaplin or Astaire. In flashes, he plays straight; then and throughout his performance, it is clear that one of the best actors in pictures is wasting his time for lack of roles worthy of him-for example, Studs Lonigan...
Born. To James Thomas Farrell, 43, author of the sad and sordid Studs Lonigan trilogy, and Hortense Alden Farrell: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: John Stephen. Weight...