Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, Novelist Graham (The Heart of the Matter) Greene was working on the biography of a distant relative named Robert Louis (Treasure Island) Stevenson...
...Irish Novelist Sean O'Faolain (A Nest of Simple Folk and The Great O'Neill) would never call himself a professional historian; his new book pretends to no scholarly grandeur and contains little beyond what O'Faolain had at his finger tips. But there have been few offhand studies of Irish history that manage to be so illuminating or so urbane...
Dreamy Lad. British Novelist Nigel Balchin (The Small Back Room; Mine Own Executioner) doesn't know all the answers, and doesn't much care. In Borgia Testament, which pretends to be an "autobiography" written by Cesare shortly before his death, Novelist Balchin is mainly interested in trotting out a brand-new explanation of Cesare's willful ways. In Balchin's view, Cesare was a man of vision, born before his time, who hoped to do what Garibaldi finally accomplished-unite all Italy...
Suzanne bore Otto a son. To famed French Novelist Jules Remains, visiting Abetz' shabby Berlin apartment in 1934, the child seemed "touching, born as he was, not of a chance meeting between two people, but of an ideal which had drawn them together...
...Great Sinner (MGM) is an expensive bloom resulting from some curious cross-pollination between Dostoevsky's The Gambler, elements of Dostoevsky's own life, and a few Hollywood afterthoughts. Like Dostoevsky, the hero of the story is a young Russian novelist (Gregory Peck) who is given to long gambling bouts in German spas, and to falling fits and visionary religious enthusiasms...