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...Famed arty town; home of Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Rose O'Neill, Alan Dinehart, William McFee...
...turned altogether to writing, having already published two sea stories and a textbook. P. A. L., his first novel, was the robustious biography of a U. S. promoter and wildcat bunco artist, "P. A. L. Tangerman." Last autumn he published Vignettes of the Sea, much like William McFee's off-duty ruminations. The polyglot relations in East Side, West Side reflect his own. A deep-chested, straw-haired German, he married, in 1912, Maud Conroy of Queenstown, Ireland...
...final choice of the prize-winners will be made by a Board consisting of three distinguished writers. They are Henry Seidel Canby, Editor of "The Saturday Review of Literature" Elinor Wylie, author of "The Orphan Angel," and William McFee, author of "Command" and "Casuals...
...Grant Overton, Harry Hansen (vice gusty Lawrence Stallings on the N. Y. World), George Sterling (San Francisco), William Allen White, Heywood Broun, Allan Nevins. And there are many creative writers whose discussion of one another's work stands for much that is good in U. S. criticism-William McFee, Christopher Morley, Thomas Beer, Louis Bromfield, Elmer Davis, John Erskine, Dorothy Canfield...
What William McFee calls the "Cheerleader in literature" can be heard far and wide. From the tradition encumbered New England littorals comes his rather subdued cry. A voice, more vociferous perhaps, but bearing the same message issues from the rude expanses of the West. In an article in the current issue of Harpers Mr. McFee decries this tendency to proclaim the supreme excellence of the new and sing only the praises of contemporary literature. This group turns with disdain from all outside the present decade and eulogizes the merits of strictly coeval writers, particularly those on the extreme left. They...