Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, 71, realistic novelist of the new South; of a heart attack; in Richmond. A spinster who never went to school, she wrote her first story at seven, her 20th and last novel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning In This Our Life, at 68. Between the two she cultivated muscular ethics, a sinewy style, the flaccid enmity of the old South. To the1 impact of her novels, a critic testified: "Southern romance is dead. Ellen Glasgow has murdered...
...Simonov-Simon &Schuster ($2.75). One of the most ubiquitous young writers of the Russian war was 30-year old Konstantine Simonov. A crack Soviet war correspondent who generally turned up in the thickest fighting from Odessa to Leningrad, Reporter Simonov is also a successful playwright, poet, short-story writer, novelist. Days and Nights, his novel of the 1942 defense of Stalingrad, is more effective than most contemporary Soviet fiction because the Communist drum-beating is more muffled...
When the woman who called herself George Sand died in 1876, she was regarded as France's most brilliant woman novelist. She was also the world's most talked-about feminist. No woman writer since Sappho had made such an impression on her male contemporaries, or left in her wake such a tumult of debate. The public had heard her called everything from whore to angel. Now Biographer Frances Winwar (who changed her own name from Vinciguerra) has retold the story of George Sand with a tenderness, knowledge and enthusiasm that are likely to stir...
...generation as radical and feminist. Author Winwar, who is something of a radical and a feminist herself, sees in this change of emphasis George Sand's splendid transition from the life of self to the life of "common humanity." Most readers may prefer the calmer summing-up of Novelist Henry James: "There is something very liberal and universal in George Sand's genius, as well as very masculine; but our final impression of her always is that she is a woman, and a Frenchwoman...
...required ingredients : commando raid, secret agent, love interest, a London blitz, shiny-eyed self-sacrifice, and a gallant English officer who wants to kill Germans because a bomb's blast killed his pet rabbit, Geoffrey. The publishers boast that three of British naval-officer-novelist Shute's last five books (Ordeal, Pied Piper, Pastoral) have been selected by "major book clubs...