Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Awarded to Robert Penn Warren, 42, Southern poet-novelist: the Pulitzer Prize, for his novel about a Huey Longish demagogue, All the King's Men (TIME, Aug. 26). To Robert Lowell, 29, cousin of the late Poetess Amy Lowell (and husband of Novelist Jean Stafford), went the poetry prize, for Lord Weary's Castle (TIME, Dec. 16). Both prizes had been skipped last year; this year the judges decided to skip the drama prize...
...with copping the idea for The Great Dictator from him, didn't get the $6,450,000 he sued for, but he did all right. After nine days in court (during which Bercovici displayed a Bercovici script about dictators and Chaplin said he had never seen it), the novelist and the comic settled things by agreeing that 1) The Great Dictator was Chaplin's idea, and Chaplin had all rights to it; 2) Chaplin could have the movie rights to two Bercovici stories; and 3) Bercovici could have...
Corpses & Clippings. The wave of dis illusioned Americans broke on a foreign shore that was wholly receptive to their discontent. In 1924, at the death of France's premier novelist, Anatole France, members of the new Surrealist movement had shown their antipathy to the old literary regime by issuing a raucous manifesto entitled Did You Ever Slap A Corpse? At the same time, followers of the deliberately infantile Dada movement were exhibiting "paintings" that showed a decisive break with the old tradition-being composed chiefly of newspaper clippings and shoelaces...
Impressed listeners were always sorry to discover later that plump Novelist Ford had actually never been closer to No Man's Land than Paris...
...world's taken my advice," the 68-year old novelist chuckled, after being asked whether the views expressed in "A Passage to India" are his final opinions of the Indian question. He stated, however, that he is worried about "how the Indians are going to manage after the British withdraw...