Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Andre Malraux, 52, onetime Marxist novelist (Man's Hope, Man's Fate), now No. 1 political theorist and propagandist for Charles de Gaulle; and Madeleine Jeanne Lioux Malraux, thirtyish, pretty widow of his halfbrother, Roland, a Resistance hero who died in a Nazi concentration camp; each for the second time; in Riquewihr, Alsace...
Died. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, 48, invalid widow of Jazz Age Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald; in a fire which destroyed a building of the Highland Hospital (for mental and nervous diseases); in Asheville, N.C. A writer herself (Save Me the Waltz, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel), she married Fitzgerald a few weeks after his first novel (This Side of Paradise) came out, was once described as ."the brilliant counterpart of the heroines of his novels...
...associate editor of Harper's, Best-selling Novelist Merle Miller (That Winter) waxed indignant at a rival, Bestseller Truman Capote (Other Voices, Other Rooms). At a Manhattan forum on publishers' methods, Miller took pained exception to a ripely precious publicity photograph (TIME, Jan. 26) of a pensive, reclining Capote peering up through artfully disarranged bangs. If the idea of printing that particular photograph was Capote's, Miller fumed, it was "deplorable"; if his publisher's, "disgraceful...
...Novelist (Message from a Stranger) Marya Mannes, another Town Hall debater, was shocked. "Dickens is a creative artist," she snapped, "and Mr. Capp is a conveyor belt." The only good thing about the comics, said Mrs. Mannes, is that the most popular strips are in the most irresponsible papers, and serve to keep people from reading their editorials...
Prizes for the election competition this year will include two first awards of $50 each and three seconds of $25 each. The contest will be judged by Lewis Perry, former principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; novelist Walter D. Edmonds '26; and Major General Sherman Miles, "U.S.A. (Ret.). Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will be an honorary judge...