Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held before the R.P.F. was mobilized. To what extent, therefore, would De Gaulle view the municipal voting as a mandate? "Faster Than I Thought." Gaullist hot heads urged the dreamy, inscrutable General to seize power at once. But he dislikes coups d'état. His top political adviser, Novelist André Malraux, advised prudence and the General favors prudence...
Rebecca, the haunting first wife in Novelist Daphne du Maurier's chilling best-seller (and movie), was haunting Novelist du Maurier. Six years after she was charged with lifting the plot from a Brazilian novelist (who later dropped the suit), Writer du Maurier had to defend herself against the same charge by a U.S. writer. In a Manhattan court, the son of the late Edwina Levin MacDonald (who died after she brought suit) charged that Rebecca was a steal from 1) his mother's novel, Blind Windows, 2) her short story, I Planned to Murder My Husband...
...turn of the century, when she was already middleaged, private commissions from British art patrons to fashion jewelry took her to London. There Novelist Henry James sat through some of her interminable monologues about art, nicknamed her "The Conversationalist...
Died. Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, second Earl of Lytton, 71, diplomat, grandson of Novelist Bulwer-Lytton (The Last Days of Pompeii); of a heart attack; in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England. Lord Lytton, whose father as Viceroy proclaimed Queen Victoria Empress of India, was Viceroy himself for four months in 1925 and headed the League of Nations' futile 1932 peace mission to Manchuria...
...godless little acre of squalor and lechery staked out by Novelist Erskine Caldwell has been tilled to exhaustion (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre, Tragic Ground). But Caldwell still goes on. His latest harvest is an unappetizing literary turnip called The Sure Hand...