Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Mrs. Basil de Selincourt), 62, U. S.-born British novelist (Adrienne Toner, The Little French Girl): in Hampstead, England...
...treason on the basis of a secret dossier, which was later proved a forgery, and other scant evidence including the testimony of famed Handwriting Expert Alphonse Bertillon. Publicly degraded, Dreyfus was sentenced to Devil's Island for life. When it became apparent that Dreyfus had been shamelessly railroaded, Novelist Emile Zola, backed by Clemenceau and Anatole France, wrote his celebrated J'accuse, an open letter to the President of the Republic. Tried and convicted for libeling the Army, Zola fled to England. By then I'affaire Dreyfus had aroused world interest, caused a national scandal which split...
...Novelist Faith Baldwin: "Unaccustomed as I am to public squeaking...
...Romancer Norris, who can carry on a conversation and manage her household while typing out her novels, Author Baldwin slaves and suffers over her work, cuts and revises in her striving for narrative smoothness and speed. A great admirer of the work of her friend Naomi Mitchison, painstaking historical novelist, Author Baldwin confesses to serious intellectual interests, would rather be "a biologist, an obscure scientist, an actress, a doctor, an explorer" than the most rapidly rising U. S. writer of popular magazine fiction...
...tales of the South by Southern writers, the Book-of-the-Month Club nevertheless turned once more to that region, picked Deep Dark River as its July choice. On the strength of this, his first novel, critics carefully pigeonholed the name of Robert Rylee as a young U. S. novelist to bear serious watching...