Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Americans are literary snobs," said burly British Novelist John Boynton (Angel Pavement) Priestley, landing in Manhattan last week. "I am here to speak or lecture at a place called Buffalo, prominent for its bootleggers. Then I will speak at Toledo, a place full of crooks chased out of Chicago. Third, I will lecture at Urbana, Ill., a place I couldn't find on my $12 atlas...
...lousy.' I expect she'll be lousier than she is swell. You spoil your women. We spoil our men. They can stand it better. Women turn out best in adversity. It may be hard on their youth and beauty, but it's good for their character. . . . [Novelist Priestley has begotten one daughter...
Among U. S. women who read these comments was Novelist Fannie (Humoresque) Hurst. Said...
...Novelist Priestley, after reading Miss Hurst's critique, after consulting his friend Manhattan Critic Henry Seidel Canby, beat a retreat on the ground that he had been joking, stated: "I am one of those strange Englishmen who really have a sense of humor...
Anne Green's brother, Julian Green, writes his very Frenchy, careful, depressing novels in French; has to be translated for the benefit of U. S. left-wing-readers. Not so his cheerful sister. So sprightly, charming, unrealistic a novelist is she that her first novel (The Selbys} was a U. S. best-seller in spite of her brother's heavy reputation. Reader, I Married Him pushes sprightliness, charm, unrealism even further...