Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Novelist Henry Miller, a Paris expatriate when the going was good, is famed for his ability to write obscenities that are disgusting rather than pornographic. Last week in broadminded Paris, his onetime refuge, an anti-vice organization was trying to ban his books. And in Monterey, Calif., where he now finds the going better, a less familiar Miller talent was on display: his watercolors...
Said French Novelist Barbey d'Aurevilly: "Léon Bloy is a cathedral gargoyle who pours the waters of heaven down on the good and on the wicked...
Unlike the average Victorian hero, Author Collins did not let an angry flush mantle his high brow, and rush off to thrash the cad with a riding crop. Like a sensible novelist, he gently escorted the lady to his house in Harley Street (where she was to live as his mistress for many years) and made haste to turn their fortunate meeting into Chapter I of his next novel, The Woman in White. This novel, and its thrilling successor, The Moonstone, made Wilkie Collins one of Victorian England's richest and most popular writers...
Dreiser's brooding and bewilderment led him into the Communist Party at 73, a year before he died. (This present collection is edited by Novelist Howard Fast, one of the editors of the Communist New Masses.) In his writing Dreiser's bewilderment led him into confused and confusing passages like the following (from The Old Neighborhood...
...Hope. A fine, grim war film, made in Spain in 1938 by Novelist Andre Malraux (TIME...