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...Europe, as in the U.S., Hamsun went hungry. One day he walked into the Copenhagen office of Editor Edvard Brandes, who later wrote "I have seldom seen a man more derelict in appearance. But that face! . . . The expression on his quivering pale face haunted me." The manuscript Hamsun gave Brandes was the story of a writer starving to death in a big city. Published as Hunger it brought Hamsun world recognition. Other novels followed. They were written in a simple, austere, almost laconic style, but with passages of high lyricism and great narrative power. European critics found...
...York. He was soon living on a diet of beans, apples and rejection slips. When he had enough rejected poems for another book, he scouted vainly for a publisher. One house stalled him off for a year. The truth was that a member of the firm had mislaid the manuscript in a brothel...
...other schools in these areas. . . . In any case, quitting the battle of Harvard Square has meant starting a new career. . . . I find myself peddling a story to an editor who turned out to be Class of '45 and who has the power of bread and butter over my last manuscript...
...that he can't stop. He was only seven that year, but he had an attack of writer's itch, and with the same zest another boy his age might have used to dismember a grasshopper, Payne wrote The True Adventures of Princess Sylvia. His manuscript showed a youthful disdain for humdrum fact, e.g., he set Princess Sylvia to reign not only over Denmark, but over all of Asia as well. The main thing was that his writer's itch turned chronic. This week, at 40, he published his 43rd book, a biography of General George...
Thank you for your Dec. 3 article, "Back to Chancery." Children who are taught only "Renaissance calligraphy" (we call it manuscript) learn to read much quicker, easier, and faster than when taught cursive writing. Also, children who are taught manuscript writing excel in spelling...