Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Novel-reading admirers of Ernest Hemingway, who boasts that he sharply distinguishes in his own mind between Novelist Hemingway (gruesome, gory, hyper-cynical) and Journalist Hemingway (objective, conscientious and in good taste), were struck by his description of signs of Italian valor on the battlefield of "little Caporetto" or Brihuega last week. "The scrub oak woods," cabled Journalist Hemingway, "are still full of Italian dead that burial squads have not yet reached. Tank tracks lead to where they died, not as cowards but defending skillfully constructed machine-gun and automatic-rifle positions, where the tanks found them and where they...
First publisher to take advantage of the price-fixing provisions of New York State's Fair Trade Act since it was declared constitutional in a judicial flip-flop last month (TIME, March 22) was Macmillan Co., which last week fixed the price of Novelist Margaret Mitchell's gusty Gone With The Wind at $3. Reason: the book which has sold at the rate of 3¼, copies per minute since it was published last June has been a favorite object of price wars between Manhattan department stores.* Swept back to Macmillan next day like autumn leaves were...
Wintering with his household of nine on an Arizona ranch last year, Novelist Priestley spent an intensely ruminative 20 minutes one midnight in his writing shack analyzing himself, his U. S. travels, his possible travels in the Hereafter. His conclusions, considerably expanded and set down in Midnight on the Desert, show the familiar Priestley discursiveness, less of his easy-going humor than usual and a not-always recognizable U. S. On that night he felt like "a half-starved little coyote . . . howling to the stars...
...GOOD AMERICANS-Jerome Bahr- Scribner ($2.50). Thirteen short stories in a Winesburg, Ohio framework, by a young writer whose talent will bear watching. Novelist Ernest Hemingway praises these stories for "their solid, youthful worth, their irony, their humor, their peasant lustiness." ALLI'S SON-Magnhild Haalke-Knopf ($2.50). Sombre Norwegian story of a young sailor's wife whose son becomes a psychopathic case; a first novel recommended to U. S. readers by Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset...
...WASN'T A NIGHTMARE-L. F. Hay- Macmillan ($2). A middle-aged English novelist and his ward uncover the black doings of a Balkans munitions-maker; a first book by a veteran British secret agent whose fictive boiling point is lower than Oppenheim...