Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Novelist William Faulkner complained that literary fame takes a terrible toll. The Kenyan Review had printed a piece that referred to Faulkner's "images of linear discreteness," and "images of curve." But: "Look," explained Faulkner to the New York Times Book Review, "I'm just a writer. Not a literary man . . ." And all those book reviews made things awkward around home (Oxford, Miss.): " 'Why look here,' they'll say, 'Bill Faulkner's gone and got his picture in the New York paper.' So they come around and try to borrow money, figuring...
...readers who enjoy that peculiarly English grace of being lighthearted about the deadly serious, Charles Williams will be a discovery indeed. Novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, who regards him as more important than either of such Christian authors as T. S. Eliot or C. S. Lewis, has spoken of Williams as "the figure who reaffirmed for intellectuals the truth that all created things are vehicles for the glory and reality...
...Novelist's Poetry. Meredith's career was full of such prodigies of creation. He sometimes had two or three novels going at once, while he also read manuscripts for the publishing house of Chapman & Hall (he was their chief reader, and discovered Hardy), wrote poetry, and lived a reasonably full social life. His friends were critics and editors, poets like Swinburne, naval heroes like Admiral Frederick Maxse, or permanent officials in the Treasury, like Sir Alexander Duff Gordon. "Socially, they were swells; but they were unaffluent and unconventional swells...
...story (taken from Frederic Wakeman's novel), a successful novelist writes a play about Moliere, which the great Saxon agrees to produce. Under the waspish direction of Saxon, the novelist rewrites and rewrites, losing his artistic independence. The writer's wife feels that Saxon's tyrannical influence is lousing up her home life, and takes a tearful step toward Reno. But after a series of contretemps, Saxon's theatrical enterprises crash, the novelist nimbly leaps aside to the arms of his missus--and Saxon latches on leech-like to another victim...
John Payne, as the novelist, just hasn't got enough screen personality to make Saxon's dominion over him seem worthwhile. The wife, Susan Hayward, registers tender anxiety throughout without much success, and Audrey Totter, as Saxon's girl friend has to cope with the sort of "I-love-him-the-brute" part which was thoroughly explored by Clara Bow a long time...