Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Correspondent Robert St. John wrote From the Land of Silent People, a first-rate reporter's account of the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece. He followed up his success by becoming a novelist (It's Always Tomorrow'), popular lecturer and radio commentator, received the accolade of the Left when he was dropped by NBC last year because, in pinko PM's opinion at least, he was "too liberal." Now, St. John has written one of the longest (210,000 words) studies of Yugoslavia since Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon...
With this barefaced situation, English Novelist Bates carries on as if the plot about the beautiful native girl had never been written before. An ex-R.A.F. officer himself, he wrote a homely yarn of flyers in The Cruise of the Breadwinner (TIME, March 10). The Purple Plain is a routine mission of romance and adventure. Flying by dead reckoning, Pilot Bates keeps on a hack's course with the skill of a fair minor novelist until he has deposited his hero quietly in bed with his girl...
...Novelist Knut Hamsun, 88, who won fame in the '20s with his hard-breathing accounts of man's bare-knuckled fight with Mother Nature (Growth of The Soil), was sued in Norway for the damage he had done his native land as a wartime collaborator. "The Germans expected a lot from me," protested the 1920 Nobel Prizewinner, "but they were not altogether pleased." Altogether pleasing or not, Collaborator Hamsun owed the nation $86,000, the court decided...
...Novelist Esther Forbes, whose Paul Revere won the $500 Pulitzer Prize in 1943, came a gay package of Christmas goodies. A not-yet-published Forbes manuscript won the M-G-M Novel Award. It was worth $150,000 outright, and possibly $250,000 more if the book sales go well...
...plains Indians just before they took to the warpath to halt the whites. Often he traveled with only two companions, but, Boston gentleman that he was, always carried calling cards. He learned to eat boiled dog and to like raw buffalo liver, and discovered that the noble savage of Novelist James Fenimore Cooper was a library creation. Parkman thought Indians "not much better than brutes...