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...magazine-promoting members of Kirkland House surrounding him beamed. The warm nod of approval from John P. Marquand, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, overseer, and writer-in-residence in the House, had set them up for the evening. They were ready now to listen to the novelist himself and later to discuss his new, unpublished novel with...
...Marquand sensed that he had acquired another appreciative group. "I only wish I could stay in this House longer," he remarked. "I had accepted the House system intellectually, but I never realized the full impact of it until I lived here. I wish all the Overseers would come and stay here for a few days to see how much Harvard life has changed since their time...
From education the conversation shifted to a problem Marquand has discussed in two of his novels--organization...
...biggest deterrent to novel writing is income tax, added Marquand. "I really think that money contributes to good writing...
...With Marquand at the speakers' table was novelist Charles B. Flood '51, author of Love Is A Bridge. Flood asserted that the artist must be an arrogant person. "The artist must believe that he is right," Flood said. "He must believe that what he has to say will not be done unless he does...