Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Socialist Upton Sinclair might be a better novelist if he kept anti-capitalist propaganda out of his books; but probably in that case he would not write at all. Of all U. S. authors, Author Sinclair is doubtless the foremost believer in Art for Man's Sake. Preacher first, novelist second (a bad second), he has founded many a tragic, many a sordid tale on fact, embellished it with idealistic Utopian fantasy, false to human nature. Mountain City, latest of his many novels, is more a sordid than a tragic story, its propaganda negative, implied rather than explicit...
Negative: The late, great Count Leo Tolstoy, novelist and seer...
Divorced. Jim Tully, hardboiled hobo novelist (Beggars of Life, Circus Parade); by Margaret Rider Myers Tully; at Las Vegas, N. Mex.; for extreme cruelty...
Died. David Herbert Lawrence, 44. English novelist (Sons and Loners, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover-), poet, essayist; at Nice; of tuberculosis. Red-bearded son of a Derbyshire collier, he was famed for his sincerity, psychological subtlety. A champion of free speech, sexual candor, in Lady Chatterley's Lover he precipitated the wrath of squeamish critics...
Among famed Bahai communicants are: Queen Marie of Rumania; Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the late great Russian novelist; Zog I of Albania...