Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memorialized by Novelist Robert Herrick, a onetime Gehring patient, in The Master...
...most brilliant interpreters of physics to the world of common men-physics being a prosaic name for that vast branch of science which embraces the giddiest reaches of the universe, the four-dimensional time-space continuum of Relativity, the hidden dance and pulsations of electrons. He was also a novelist, a musician, a philosopher-above all, a dreamer...
Died. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, 75, novelist; after an apoplectic stroke; at her villa near Saint-Brice-Sous-Forêt, France. Edith Jones was born into a socially prominent New York family which discouraged her early attempts at writing, although when she was 15 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had some of her poems published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1885 she married Edward Wharton, Boston banker, whom she later divorced. Her first fiction, The Greater Inclination appeared in 1899. In 1906, like her friend and idol, Henry James, she went abroad to live. Three years later she wrote her famed...
...epic novelist, certainly no apologist for the rich, Harvey O'Connor tells most of the Guggenheim saga in an objective, critically-cool prose. But occasionally readers may detect a slightly flabbergasted note of left-wing awe as he recounts how the seven sons of Jewish immigrant Meyer Guggenheim of Philadelphia made the family the second or third richest in the U. S., comparable in the scope of its clannish money-making only to the Rothschilds. Starting in 1847 as a pack peddler of household knickknacks along the muddy roads outside Philadelphia, vigorous, good-humored Meyer Guggenheim acquired a peddler...
Paul Muni says that in any performance he will be satisfied if he leaves with his audience one unforgettable moment. Audiences of Zola will probably recall at least three: the scene in which the nervous young novelist, unaware that his Nana has become an overnight sensation, begs a loan of two francs from his publisher; the scene in which he tries to convince Mme Dreyfus and himself that his days of fighting are over; the courtroom speech in which he justifies his interference as a private citizen in L'Affaire Dreyfus. A Memorable also is Joseph Schildkraut...