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Religious Novels. Nineteen forty-three was also a year in which religious novels crept into the top brackets of fast-selling fiction. Lloyd Douglas' The Robe, published the year before, was the No. 1 U.S. fiction best-seller for eleven months, was then nosed out by John P. Marquand's So Little Time (sales of The Robe to date: 680,000 copies). Sholem Asch's The Apostle is now No. 4 bestseller...
...Best-sellers No. 1, 2 and 3, respectively: So Little Time, by John P. Marquand; The Robe, by Lloyd C. Douglas; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith...
...John P. Marquand, Pulitzer Prizewinner, got about one-third that amount for the movie rights to his best-selling So Little Time...
...Author. Novelist Marquand resembles Jeffrey Wilson more than the protagonists of his three New England novels. Born in 1893, he grew up in Newburyport, Mass., went to Harvard, worked on the Boston Transcript, served in France during World War I. After a year on the New York Tribune, he tried advertising, became one of the Satevepost's most skillful authors. In his Satevepost days Mar quand created the character of Mr. Moto, a sapient Japanese detective. After Pearl Harbor Marquand interned Mr. Moto. Said Marquand: "I rather liked him . . . but now it seems I had him all wrong...
...also said: "These are hard times for a writer to find anything to write about because the world is changing so fast that any contemporary subject is likely to be outdated by the time it is published." Readers of So Little Time will see how cleverly clever Author Marquand has got around that...