Word: marquands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deep in a long ballad about the frontier, and also writing a novel "about a man who undertook a deed of light, but who, because he undertook it without understanding its context, performed in the end a deed of darkness." Another Pulitzer Prizewinner, JOHN P. MARQUAND, didn't believe that "a writer's apt to evolve very much after he's 40," but at 53 he was off to the marshes near Newburyport, Mass. to work on a new novel. At Santa Monica, Calif., KATHERINE ANNE PORTER had finished two-thirds of No Safe Harbor, a parable...
...Verge" of Significance. Warren could think of 14 writers (half of them poets) who, he thought, were doing "good work." Book-of-the-Month Club Judge Marquand, whose job is to find books he can extol, finds that "the older writers have said about all they can be expected to say. The younger writers have something inside themselves that's new and different . . . . They aren't trying to write like Hemingway . . . . Lately things have been picking up . . . . Our literature is just on the verge of getting significant." He singled out as the best of the young writers Jean...
...many a promising writer. Warren, whose All the King's Men was passed up by the movies until it got the Pulitzer award (and now will fetch Warren up to $200,000), thought that "the odds are probably against a writer doing good work in Hollywood." Added Marquand, a graduate of the slicks: "The slicks and Hollywood and radio-though not so much radio-do their best to stifle ideas and originality. They're very dangerous to a promising writer. By the time he has got himself the technical skill and enough money to be independent...
...movie version of Marquand's own The Late George Apley "had nothing to do with what the book intended to convey. . . . When you tie up $2,000,000 in a movie, you become awfully careful not to offend very many people. . . . Movies wear me out. I'd rather sit at home and look at the sunset...
...Including governors of seven states, 17 university presidents, Henry L. Stimson, Harold Stassen, Jim Farley, Joseph C. Grew, Banker A. P. Giannini, Author John P. Marquand, the Right Rev. William T. Manning (retired Episcopal Bishop of New York), ex-G.I. Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (see PRESS), and Historian James Truslow Adams...