Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louise Bogan, Manhattan poet-critic (for the New Yorker), moved into the Library of Congress' chair of poetry (term : one year; duties: comfortably vague), succeeding Southern Agrarian Poet-Critic-Novelist Robert Penn Warren (Night Rider...
Knut Hamsun, Norway's 85-year-old Nobel Prizewinning novelist (Growth of the Soil), pleaded not guilty to a charge of collaboration-but admitted his pro-Nazi sympathies and wore his Norwegian Nazi Party badge to court...
...Quantities of stuff," says bluff Iowa-born Novelist Phil Stong, have been written about the "vain German nymphomaniac" who was Russia's Catherine II, "Catherine the Great." But Marta, "who was truly great" both as Peter's wife and as Empress Catherine I in her own right, has rated only one biography, written in the 18th Century. Author Stong, with the same racy narrative power that made his State Fair one of the most likable novels of more than a decade ago and has since earned for his two dozen-odd novels and children's tales...
...subject of The Death of Virgil, Hermann Broch's most important novel since The Sleepwalkers took the intelligentsia by storm in 1932. Author Broch was already at work on The Death of Virgil when he fled to the U.S. from his native Austria in 1938. That same year Novelist Ezio Taddei, an Italian anarchist, climbed the Alps and escaped to France and the U.S., after 18 years in Fascist prisons. His new novel, The Pine Tree and the Mole, is a study of Italian society some 2,000 years after Virgil's death. In both books the theme...
...people of Cornwall, Q was not only a favorite regional novelist, but also local magistrate, school councilor, alder man, freeman of three Cornish towns onetime mayor of Fowey (rhymes with joy), his birthplace and home. When Q said of Samuel Johnson: "He never saw literature but as a part of life," he was stating his own, classically inspired ideal of the author as citizen...