Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George and Lady Ida had three children. Edith, the eldest, is the sad-looking, six-foot, sixtyish spinster now renowned for her exotic garb, her exotic prose, her "glittering plinths of jacynth" poetry. The elder son and successor to the title is Osbert: traveler, memoirist, novelist, literary crony of the King & Queen. The younger son is Sacheverell, amateur of baroque art, and biographer of Franz Liszt...
Hungarian-born George Tabori, 32, is almost unknown as a novelist. Educated in Germany, trained as a journalist in the Balkans and the Middle East, he now lives in England, has worked for the BBC since 1943. Companions of the Left Hand,* his second novel (the first: Beneath the Stone, 1945), is a sardonic political parable, overwritten in spots, preachy in others, but crafty, speculative and Koestler-like in its ambiguities and undertones...
James M. Cain, 53, cold blood-&-thunder novelist whose second wife complained he once threw her clear across the room, was sued for divorce by Wife No. 3 -oldtime cinema siren Aileen Pringle, 45, who had lasted almost two years with him. The charge: cruelty...
Once the plot's unlikely major premise is swallowed, the rest is easy: Claudette, looking as luscious as ever in her Adrian getups, is a loveless lady novelist who knows practically nothing about men. Wide-eyed, she boards a train for Hollywood to help in the filming of her smash bestseller. Who should turn up as fellow travelers but Marine Captain John Wayne and Lieut. Don DeFore...
...Novelist Busch has also just finished a screenplay (The Pursuit), is organizing a company to produce it, plans to star his actress wife, Teresa Wright...