Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl who passes the finals will receive, over the air, a free course in English from Italian-born Actress Elissa Landi (who is also a novelist). For the past three years Miss Landi has been teaching radio & television students at the College of the City of New York how to tidy up their bad accents...
Married. James A. Michener, 41, 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist (Tales of the South Pacific); and Vange A. Nord, 26, publicity writer; in Manhattan...
...late Novelist Thomas Wolfe was more popular than ever in Asheville, N.C., the town he described as "Altamont" in Look Homeward, Angel. A group of the townspeople, calling themselves the Wolfe Memorial Association, set out to raise money for the restoration and preservation of "that bloody barn," the old Wolfe boardinghouse...
Arthur Murray has been persuaded to teach the "Carmen Flamenco"; Novelist Sophie Kerr has ground out a 30-part serialization of the movie that the N.E.A. syndicate will offer to some 600 newspapers; Pocket Books, Inc. has issued a 25? edition of the Mérimée novel, plugging the movie on the cover; John Powers has selected a Carmen-type model; Manhattan Psychiatrist Dr. Frederic Wertham has put Carmen on the couch for a psychoanalytical study and has concluded: "The world is full of Carmens...
Erskine Caldwell, chronicler of the seamy side of the Southern woes, is the leading bestseller-novelist in the world.* Quarter reprints of his God's Little Acre, Tobacco Road, Trouble in July and others have pushed the sales of his books above 9,000,000 copies. Perhaps some of his appeal is to hunters of the salacious: it is possible to read his novels as if they were extended dirty jokes. But the Caldwell of these early novels and stories had real talent besides...