Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gainesville, Fla., Pulitzer-Prizewinning Novelist Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings (The Yearling) was ordered to pay damages to Zelma Cason, who had complained that Novelist Rawlings had put her in Cross Creek and thus invaded her privacy. The damages: $1. The court costs, which Novelist Rawlings also...
...Manhattan, after 21 months of his sixth marriage (to Novelist Kathleen Winsor) and two noisy weeks of charges & countercharges, an idea occurred to Clarinetist Artie Shaw: "It's gotten so you've even got to be awfully careful of the kind of girl you go out with these days...
After 21 months of marriage (her second, his sixth), brunette Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor told the judge about life with her clarinet-tooting husband, Artie Shaw. In the tabloids, it all sounded like a souped-up version of her own Restoration fiction, in modern dress. In 31 pages of searing affidavit, Kathleen swore that Artie had screamed at her, beaten her, come home "drunken, abusive, and belligerent." He had also tried out on her his favorite theory of domestic relations ("The only way to keep a woman in line-be a caveman"). "He boasted of having thrown Lana Turner...
...Novelist Evelyn Waugh has pointed out, the bare bones of this story might just as well have come from the pen of France's murky thriller-writer, Georges Simenon, or from mysticky W. Somerset Maugham, or even from a Hollywood scripter ("One can imagine . . . Miss Bacall's pretty head lolling on the stretcher . . .") But needless to say, it is the flesh and mind, not the skeleton, that make The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene's most ambitious book...
...Novelist Waugh, a fellow Catholic, thinks that Greene intended to make a saint out of Sinner Scobie. Yet, he says, to will your own damnation "for the love of God is either a very loose poetical expression or a mad blasphemy." Waugh admires The Heart of the Matter as a novel but disapproves its theology. His opinion is by no means the verdict of all Catholic critics; the book has been banned as obscene in Eire, acclaimed by one of England's leading Jesuits, Father Martindale. And it has quickly become a bestseller in both England...