Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aware that Countess Tolstoy, youngest daughter of the late great Russian Novelist Count Leo Tolstoy, had been occupying the Newtown Square farm (rent free) for about a year, Philadelphia editors printed the letter in full. Excerpts...
Hillyer turned from poetry to novel writing last year, and the success of his first book has encouraged him to continue as a novelist. Critics acclaimed "Riverhead" one of the finest novels of the year...
Commenting on his anti-War activities, said Herbert George Wells in 1930: "I have ruined a good second-class reputation as a novelist by that occupation...
Awarded. To novelist Willa Gather, the first Prix Femina Americain for her Shadows on the Rock...
Died. Marie Adrienne Anne Victurnienne Clémentine de Rochechouart de Crussol, Dowager Duchess d'Uzes, 85, for 60 years France's foremost socialite, able huntswoman, sculptress, novelist, playwright; of pneumonia; at the home of her daughter Duchess de Luynes; in Dapierre, France. Relict and mother of France's senior dukes, she was spoken of in French society simply as "La Duchesse." Out of her immense Veuve Cliquot vineyard incomes she financed General Georges Boulanger's intrigue in the 1880's to return monarchy to France. After a youth as the "most beautiful, best-born...