Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor John Erskine of Columbia University, who has since come to fame as a novelist (The Private Life of Helen of Troy, Galahad, Adam and Eve), was sent to France during the War as education chief for the A. E. F. Early in 1918 he visited the front lines of the French Army. He wrote some sonnets about what he saw and felt. Some of the verses, "At the Front . . . First Impressions," he gave to Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A."), now the New York World's famed colyumist, then a staffman on The Stars & Stripes...
...Irma Schmultz from sailing to the Philippines. As you close the book you are sure that he will get her, sure that he will be almost unanimously reelected. The Author. Janet Fairbank's father (Benjamin Ayer) was a big man in Chicago's yesterday; her sister is Novelist Margaret Ayer Barnes (TIME, July 7). Herself a big and breezy woman, she has not been able to get much of her vitality into writing, has taken it out in other ways: she has campaigned for Presidents, for charity, for women's votes, has tamed many a lion...
...Lars Olof Jonathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, primate of the Lutheran Church in Sweden, father of twelve. Each of these distinguished gentlemen will receive $46,430. U. S. newspapers cheered, for Mr. Kellogg is the third U. S. citizen to be raised to the Nobelity this year, together with Novelist Sinclair ("Red") Lewis, Bacteriologist Karl Landsteiner...
Professor Emeritus Henry van Dyke of Princeton, commenting on the award of the Nobel prize in literature to Novelist Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), said: "They handed Lewis a bouquet, but they gave America a very backhanded compliment." Commented Novelist Lewis: "I am particularly honored that the attack came from where it did." Then he sailed for Sweden to receive his $46,350. Said he: "Naturally I felt that some day I would get this recognition, but I did not know when. I should be just as glad if Eugene O'Neill had received...
...clock today in Sever 11, Henry James Forman, novelist, short-story writer, and editor, will speak about his methods of writing. He will also tell some of his experiences with Bernard Shaw and other men of letters. The course is English 22 conducted by Professor Hersey. As in the case of Professor Hersey's talk on Thomas Hardy, the Vagabond looks forward to the occasion...