Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writing of his novels-with-a-purpose. His vigorous treatment of timely subjects-sins of society, political corruption, plutocratic greed-stirred controversy, made him a best seller. He had finished 20-odd books when one day in 1911 a crazed violinist named Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough. who imagined the novelist had pilloried his sister in a story, pumped six bullets into Phillips' chest, abruptly ended this life-with-a-purpose...
...Author. Two and a half years ago died Mrs. Carolyn Phillips Frevert, sister of Novelist Phillips. Named as her residuary legatee, with a bequest of $729,286, was a "tried and loyal friend," Isaac Frederick Marcosson, most famed Satevepost interviewer and writer. Writing at his best, Mr. Marcosson revives the memory of his friend in its most heroic proportions...
Died. Sir Ronald Ross, 75, discoverer of the malaria parasite in the Anopheles mosquito; in London. Composer, poet, playwright, novelist, mathematician, he was called a modern Elizabethan. He entered the Indian Medical Service at 24; began an unofficial search for the malaria-transmitting mosquito at 35. His interfering superiors finally gave him six months in which to investigate the 2,000-year-old problem of malaria and the still unsolved problem of kala azar. In 1899 he left the Medical Service; in 1902 he was given the Nobel Prize for Medicine, made a Companion of the Bath. Forgotten...
Halo Tarrant and her cold husband had come to the parting of the ways even before she began to fall in love with Vance Weston, Midwestern novelist of charming honesty and unstable character. When Halo ran off to Europe with Vance, her husband's cold vanity was wounded; he refused to give her a divorce. For a while she did not mind. She was sure Vance had the makings of a great writer; in the meantime they would have a grand time discovering Europe together. But Vance turned out to be unexpectedly impressionable. New people and places, if they...
...Author. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 70 last January, still writes like a woman a generation younger. Born a Manhattan socialite, tutored abroad, summered at Newport, she overcame her early handicaps and became a surprisingly serious novelist. Her novelette Ethan Frame is still spoken of respectfully by bumptious younger critics. Though she has lived in France since 1906, her books have been stanchly U. S. products, except for a pro-French interlude during the War. By her juniors she is rated respectfully as an old lady writer of surprising youth, surprising up-to-date notions. Among her many books: The House...