Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After searching through his violent, labyrinthine books, the family of late Novelist Thomas Wolfe culled an epitaph for his Asheville, N. C. tombstone from his posthumous novel The Web and the Rock: "Death bent to touch his chosen son with mercy, love and pity, and put the seal of honor on him when he died...
...Novelist Boo weaves a leisurely ring around the triangle of Dagrun Styhr, her husband, Paul, and Steffen Thomasgard, the man whom Dagrun had first loved and whom she returns to see. So slow-paced is the book that even its climax, when Dagrun and Steffen are marooned overnight on a deserted island, seems unexciting. Sigrid Boo thinks her book would make a good movie, hopes that fellow Scandinavian Garbo will play the lead. It would take the Garbo face and voice to put umph in such a gentle...
...orderly as a flock of well-shepherded sheep, 453 left-minded U. S. novelists, poets, critics and journalists met last fortnight in Manhattan. Brought together as the Third American Writers' Congress, they and an audience of more than 2,500 were addressed on opening night in Carnegie Hall by English Novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner ("The pen is not mightier than the sword, but it is as mighty"); by Exile Thomas Mann ("Fascism has overstepped its mark ... its decline is already determined."); by Eduard Benes, ex-President of Czecho-Slovakia ("a kind of United States of Europe will...
...years Hollywood has been waiting, no novelist has yet written a good book about it. Few serious novelists have even tried. A harder try than most is The Day of the Locust, by a 35-year-old Manhattan-born novelist who became a screen writer three years ago, after writing a talented satire called Miss Lonelyhearts...
When she met Sinclair Lewis in 1927 Dorothy Thompson was restless again. She had just divorced the elusive Josef Bard and Lewis was being divorced by his first wife. After their marriage in 1928, she plunged into her new career as wife of the No. 1 U. S. novelist as energetically as she had followed her previous ones. She helped to rebuild a house in Vermont and filled it with guests. She set up an establishment in Bronxville that soon became famous as a salon. She called herself Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. She had a baby. For two years she hardly...