Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wise Woman, Lilith and The Phantasies are still reread and remembered by those with a nostalgia for the turn-of-the-century world of nannies, nurseries and button boots. But it was Macdonald's Christian insight that made him great. Says Lewis: "Necessity made Macdonald a novelist, but few of his novels are good and none is very good...
Died. Lloyd Osbourne, 79, novelist; in Glendale, Calif. As a lad he asked to be told a story without girls in it; his stepfather, Robert Louis Stevenson, complied by writing Treasure Island...
...plot is heavy with age, but British Novelist Anthony Thorne manages to lighten it with a summer-weight touch and a twist...
...foggy afternoon in London, ten-year-old Sonia was lured into a vacant house, attacked, and choked to death. So begins Prelude to a Certain Midnight, the fifth novel by British Novelist Gerald Kersh (Sergeant Nelson of the Guards, Faces in a Dusty Picture). For a few pages Kersh fiddles around the psychological fringes of the crime, then he runs through a roster of gaudy suspects...
...which have such energy. It has none of the death-neurosis or neurotic heroics of Malraux; none of the softness of Steinbeck or Hersey; none of the chest-thumping and little of the romanticism of Hemingway. It is the work of a good rather than of a possibly great novelist; it is also the work of a mature and intelligent...