Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This modest if rhetorical utterance is characteristic of florid, balding, loquacious Stark Young, who has been a discerning critic of art and the theater (in the New Republic and elsewhere) for some 20 years. Stark Young is known also as a best-selling novelist (So Red The Rose), a poet, a playwright, a translator of plays and a lecturer. Last week he made a firm bid to be known as a painter, gave his first exhibition at Manhattan's Friends of Greece...
Elina Sjostedt Tyszecka Cain, second wife of 50-year-old James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice), told a Los Angeles divorce judge that the side-mouth novelist once took her by the arm and threw her "clear across the room. "Writers are funny people," mused Mrs. Cain. She won her divorce...
...litterateur, teaching aerology: "I find myself reading the word 'humility' as 'humidity,' and when a novelist writes, 'She burst into tears,' I mentally comment, why doesn't he say 'She reached her dew point...
England's famed critic-novelist Rebecca West, whose historical tone poem of the Balkans, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, has been called "a passionate analysis of the great crisis of contemporary man," has a sharp tongue in a fearsomely feminine head. Last week, in The Atlantic Monthly, she turned her critical attention to Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover's The Problems of Lasting Peace, written in collaboration with Elder Diplomat Hugh Gibson (TIME, July 6). Never noted as a motherly sort, Critic West sailed in with claws open, left Messrs. Hoover and Gibson considerably tattered. Critic West wrote...
...Library of Congress asked Gertrude Atherton, 85, rejuvenated novelist (Black Oxen, 38 other books), for a bale of her manuscripts. She sent them...