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...John P. Marquand, shy, tongue-in-cheek, best-selling satirist, explained that he had changed from hacking out Satevepost serials to a novel-a-year pace to escape high income taxes, only to find that his system had backfired and he had to pay higher taxes than ever.* But he defended the one-a-year system anyhow, declared: "Few people realize how much good writing can be traced to the income...
...Apley, and his creator, may be Harvardmen, but this latest of the 1944 season's period pieces can hardly be called memorable. John P. Marquand '14 has collaborated with George S. Kaufman on a good and a very funny play, which, unfortunately, for itself, follows closely in the wake of the smash hit, "I Remember Mama,' and cannot help but suffer decidedly by comparison...
...John P. Marquand, best-selling satirist whose last novel So Little Time took sundry pokes at the Book-of-the-Month Club (one poke: "She did not want to have books picked out for her beforehand by ... the Book-of-the-Month Club."), and was the most popular Book-of-the-Month for 1943, joined the Club's editorial board.* This made his future books ineligible for selection, but Marquand declared he was glad "to be in a position to exploit American writers," and forgot about his past poking: "Don't blame me for what my characters...
...John P. Marquand's So Little Time "did me more good than all the liver ex tract and iron in the world...
...Timers continued to grind out novels in 1943. John P. Marquand published So Little Time ($2.75), a sad, bland tale of a polished but warm-hearted literary hack whose success cost him his self-respect. Upton Sinclair's Wide Is the Gate ($3), his 63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed...