Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prodigious at more than music is this Harlem-born daughter of a white mother and a coal-black father (TIME, Aug 26). Mrs. Schuyler paints, writes for Negro newspapers. George Schuyler was a day laborer and a dishwasher before he became a novelist (Black No More, Slaves Today), a contributor to American Mercury and Saturday Evening Post. All three Schuylers subsist on raw vegetables, raw meat, a diet which Mrs. Schuyler claims is largely responsible for her daughter's precocity. At two Philippa amazed the neighbors by reading, writing her name, spelling 150 long words. At four her spelling...
Died, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 62, famed British poet, critic, novelist, militant Roman Catholic controversialist; of heart disease; at "Top Meadow" at Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Proud of his romantic poetry (The Wild Knight, The Ballad of the White Horse), he was best known for the books in which he defended his conversion to Catholicism (Heretics, Orthodoxy), his novels (The Man Who Was Thursday), his biography of Charles Dickens, his "Father Brown" detective fiction, his sparkling editorship of G. K.'s Weekly. So close was he to his good friend Hilaire Belloc that their violently medieval, anticapitalist, anti-materialist philosophy earned...
Margaret Wilson's The Able McLaughlins, concerning a Scottish community in the Midwest during the Civil War. won the first Harper Prize as well as the Pulitzer Prize for 1923. It was Author Wilson's first book. Since then the 54-year-old novelist, once a missionary to India, has written eight other books, married an Englishman, settled in England, switched publishers. This autumn from Doubleday, Doran she will try a literary comeback with a sequel to her first, and still most noteworthy, work...
...Furious, Yeats got together with Lady Gregory and another friend, ground out the play in a fortnight, published it in an Irish newspaper, spiked Moore's guns. Yeats admits that he looks back on the incident "with some remorse." His final summation of Moore: a great realistic novelist, but-no style...
Died. Ethel Dickens, 71, spinster granddaughter of Novelist Charles Dickens; from an overdose of a sleeping potion; in London...