Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Less directly involved in war, but caught in its vortex, were Novelist-Biographer Stefan Zweig, dead by his own hand in Brazilian exile ("The artist has been wounded in his concentration. . . ."); sensationalist Richard Julius Herman Krebs (alias Jan Valtin, hero of under-coverman Krebs's 1941 best-seller Out of the Night), imprisoned by the Justice Department for deportation to Germany at war's end; Author Waldo ("I love Argentina. . . .") Frank, who gave a repeat performance of the mauling he received in Kentucky's Harlan County in 1932 by getting attacked by young Fascists in Buenos Aires...
Look Homeward Angels. Close to the contemporary U.S. were two roughly similar books by two totally dissimilar writers - Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' best-selling Cross Creek ($2.50), Essayist E. B. White's sane and salty One Man's Meat ($2.50). Ludwig Bemelmans, a first-rate light storyteller with a surpassing light style, criticized human foibles with a sweet smile in I Love You, I Love You, I Love You ($2.50). But it remained for Humorist James Thurber, reporting on A.D. 1942!s general state of affairs in My World - And Welcome...
...article by Curtis Thomas on the novels of an obscure contemporary, Paul Hervey Fox. Attempting the almost impossible tour de force of describing an unknown in order to evaluate him, Thomas never even succeeds in bringing his Pygmalion to life, and Fox remains what he was, a little known novelist...
Somerset Maugham can spin a colorful yarn out of those aspects of human relations that usually lurk in literary backgrounds but rarely appear boldly as the central theme of a story. At times a bit maudlin, the English novelist has avoided stereotyped sentimentalities in "The Moon and Sixpence," and Warner's has followed faithfully with a moving cinema rendition of the tale of simmering desires and explosive emotional escapes...
...Novelist Vance, who has "never lived in any one place longer than two years," envies writers who write in "lovely quiet places in the woods with purling brooks." She says: "I've had to do my writing on the edges of card tables, on trains, in boarding houses. I seem to be able to write best in places like China where the entire household wanders in and out and there's a mob howling at the gates...