Word: lonigan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, over a Scotch-and-milk, tousled Author James T. (Studs Lonigan) Farrell confessed that religion scares him mostly because he cannot visualize any hereafter to his liking. "If I were to go to Heaven," he explained wryly, "I would find my sainted mother nagging my father, and my grandmother bawling out my grandfather. And both ladies would be telling the Lord how to run things. On the other hand, if I go where I should go, I would find my aunt chasing the Devil as always. That wouldn't be any change for me, either...
Novelist James T. Farrell disclosed in Florida, where he is loafing and avoiding typewriters, that he has at last decided to sell the movie rights to his American hero, boozy, wench-chasing Studs Lonigan. Said he: "I wrote Studs when I was 25, and I've held off selling him for another 25 years. But the movies have now grown up enough to handle a big mischievous boy like Studs...
James T. Farrell has spent most of his writing life in the shadow of a Chicago poolroom hoodlum named Studs Lonigan. But while Farrell undoubtedly put his best talent into the creation of Studs, he has since lavished double the affection, energy and space (present count: 5 vols., 2,529 pp.) on Danny O'Neill, a sensitive, spectacled youngster growing up in the same South Side slums as Studs and James Farrell himself. Earlier novels in the O'Neill saga, e.g., A World I Never Made, My Days of Anger, found young Danny seething with frustrations...
When "A World I Never Made" first appeared. Pulitzer prize-winning historian Bernard DeVoto said in the Saturday Review of Literature that it is "Presented with ecstasy... Goes beyond 'Stads Lonigan...
Like most U.S. males, Author James T. (Studs Lonigan) Farrell has spent considerable time brooding over a weighty question: What's wrong with American women? Like most, he has arrived at a lot of different answers. His favorite seems to be one given by a locked-up lunatic who narrates one of the 21 stories in Farrell's An American Dream Girl...