Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Cicely Isabel Fairfield (Rebecca West*), Scottish, critic and novelist, now a book-critic for the New York Herald-Tribune ; and Henry Maxwell Andrews, London banker; in London...
...dead. This is back in 1905 and '06. As every one expects, the first husband turns up, but this is in 1919 after a son has arrived to complicate matters. A weak heart fortunately carries off the deserter during a slight scuffie with Michael, by this time a budding novelist. This incident is covered over and it is not until 1930 that the illegal marriage of the supremely happy Michael and Mary gets another blow. Highly devoted and avowedly Victorian son David takes a young lady in marriage and the truth must be told. David accepts the situation with considerable...
Zane Grey, wild west novelist, owns a large ranch on the rim of Arizona's Tonto Basin. On his ranch he had fat pigs. Last year Novelist Grey discovered that roving bears were hugging many of his delectable pigs to death. Since it was two weeks before the regular bear season opened, he wired the State game warden for special permission to do a little shooting. The warden refused. Later, although Novelist Grey pays taxes on two pieces of Arizona property, the warden would not issue to him a resident hunting license...
Last fortnight, after having thought the matter over for a year, Novelist Grey decided that he had been insulted by this refusal, so grossly insulted that he would never go back to Arizona again. He said he would not even write any more of his famed Arizona stories (Under the Tonto Rim, Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon, etc.). He charged neighboring hunters with spreading untrue, derogatory tales about his sportsmanship. Said he: "In twelve years my whole bag of game has been five bears, three bucks and a few turkeys. I have written 15 novels with Arizona background. Personally...
...Author. Knut Hamsun, Nobel Prize Winner (Growth of the Soil, 1920), is Norway's No. 1 novelist. By 1918 his books had been translated into 23 languages, bettering Hans Christian Andersen's record by one. Says he, with proud humility: "In 100 years I shall be forgotten." Other books: Hunger...