Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Graham Greene deprecates these 19 stories as "byproducts of a novelist's career." This amounts to fair warning to readers of Brighton Rock and The Heart of the Matter not to expect anything of comparable quality...
...these six, four were written in 1936, apparently a crucial year for Novelist Greene's development. What gives them literary value is the clarity with which they confront the author's religious faith with the paradoxes and atrocities of reality, including a certain "drab empty forest ... where it is impossible to believe in any spiritual life, in anything outside the nature dying round...
...Novelist Somerset Maugham was given a belated 75th birthday party by Manhattan's Overseas Press Club. He blew out a single candle and offered a serene opinion on Britain's future: "There can be no reason to fear for the nation so long as the women of England retain their magnificent virility...
Marriage Revealed. C. (Cecil) S. (Scott) Forester, 49, British-born, best-selling novelist (the Horatio Hornblower sea sagas); and Dorothy Ellen Foster; he for the second time, she for the first; in London; last...
While creating a novelist's mood, Callaghan drops a few loud hints. An English professor tells Tyndall about the new men's residence that the university needs; other faculty members complain of overcrowded classrooms. Even the university's library is mentioned. "I have to wait in line, and find that I can't get what I want," says a philosophy professor. "If you die with a million, Tyndall, why don't you leave it for a library...