Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corner of this country, at least, the pesky problem of the agricultural surplus has been solved. Right in line with all American principles of rugged individualism the solution came, not from black-capped college professors or brain trustees, but from the colored cook of that homespun novelist, Edna Ferber. A friend of ours who recently had the pleasure of visiting her in New York spent most of her time being shown the glories of the lady writer's new Park Avenue penthouse, famous in the eyes of its present possessor as the former home of Ivar Krueger, the match king...
...ceaseless struggles that revolve around books and that are fought with the weapons of reviews, debates, lectures, gossip. Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote of his literary life with all the suavity and aplomb of a generous victor. Poet Edgar Lee Masters described his with all the bitterness of admitted defeat. Novelist Frank Swinnerton described some staggering setbacks with the doggedly hopeful air of a championship contender who does not know he has already been knocked out several times...
Swinnerton: An Autobiography describes in an uninspired and methodical fashion the career of an engraver's hard working son who became a publisher's reader, a best-selling novelist, a tireless commentator on English literary figures. Filling the first and best part of his book with accounts of his family's poverty after his father's death, of his first newspaper job at the age of 14, of his goading ambition, Swinnerton gives over most of the remainder to polite, discreet, tedious descriptions of his writing friends and acquaintances. Not in direct, slapdash conflict...
Most U. S. fiction about the automobile has been of the character of Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, with only a few novelists making a serious attempt to investigate the social influence of this piece of machinery in U. S. life. Exceptions have been Robert Coates's lyric descriptions of driving in Yesterday's Burdens, Sherwood Anderson's awed observations in Kit Brandon. Last week a 29-year-old novelist made a bold attempt to correct this omission with an extraordinary, 415-page work of fiction in which the automobile, with its moving parts, time payments...
COURTHOUSE SQUARE-Hamilton Basso -Scribner ($2.50). Deftly written novel about a novelist who sickens of New York intellectual life, returns after ten years to his birthplace in a small Southern town, narrowly escapes lynching when he disturbs fellow-townsmen's ideas about Negroes...