Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even before it reached the stage, Novelist Greenwood's bitter description of the miserable living provided by Government bounty had assumed something of the authority of a State paper in Britain. It was referred to by members of Parliament when discussing the plight of the "depressed areas." Novelist Greenwood, who had written himself off the dole with his book, became a public character. There was national rejoicing when it was announced that his new prosperity would enable him to marry the sweetheart of his threadbare days. This was followed by a general lifting of eyebrows when the marriage failed...
Elizabeth Bowen's progress as a novelist has been no less remarkable than the lack of attention her progress has aroused. Though it was obvious from her first book that she was an exceptionally gifted writer she has had the unfortunate faculty of frightening plain readers away. Her first novel, The Hotel, was bitterly amusing; To the North (TIME, March 13, 1933) was chillingly clever. But readers who had not yet discovered her or had not been scared off by her icy intelligence found in The House in Paris nothing to alarm or repel them, felt it descend...
...most avid consumers are apt to be apologetic or defiant about their appetite. But they would not admit that detectification is the lowest form of writing. They would point out that the ability to concoct a specious and readable thriller demands more ingenuity and special training than many a novelist can command. And they would further contend that the best murder stories can compete with novels on their own ground. Partisans might instance the tales of Foe, Wilkie Collins and Gaboriau, would certainly mention Dashiell Hammett, "Francis lies," Dorothy Sayers. While admitting that run-of-the-mine murder stories bear...
DARBY AND JOAN - Maurice Baring - Knopf ($2). Superficially serene tale of an aristocratic Englishwoman, by the aristocratically serene English novelist...
Kilkenny's other shipmates include Count Ilya Tolstoy, cinema photographer, grandson of the novelist. Count Tolstoy is whiling away the time for the junk to be built by persuading his friends to invest in a concrete stadium for fighting-fish fights near St. Augustine...