Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Georges Bernanos, 60, royalist French novelist who blamed his country's ills on it & bourgeoisie; of cirrhosis of the liver; in Paris. An ardent Roman Catholic, Bernanos in 1936 won the French Academy's Grand Prix with Diary of a Country Priest...
Married. Mary Ellin Berlin, 21, brunette daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin and Postal Telegraph Heiress-Novelist Ellin Mackay (Lace Curtain) Berlin; and Dennis Sheedy Burden, 28, Newport and Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...
Last week Novelist Waugh was tickling toes and cutting throats again. The Loved One, his first novel published in the U.S. since Brideshead, was in the eager hands of U.S. readers, most of whom did not know whether to gasp, hoot or holler at the uncomfortable feeling that they had been smudged with soot from a crematory. The title was Waugh's creamy trade name for a corpse. A tale of love and suicide among the morticians of a cemetery that physically resembles Hollywood's fabulous Forest Lawn (TIME, Aug. 24, 1942), The Loved One was either Novelist...
Bright Young Books. The bright books followed one another like delayed bursts of sinister laughter. "Spotty, a little flat, not quite so good," some readers said. But they were still the funniest books of their kind being written, and Evelyn Waugh was Britain's No. 1 satirical novelist...
...Novelist Rómulo Gallegos Freire became the first popularly elected President...