Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heroes have made more money or become better known than warm and selfless Major Victor Joppolo, central character of Novelist John Hersey's best-selling A Bell for Adano. Few are now more obscure than ex-Lieut. Colonel Frank E. Toscani, the prototype of Joppolo in real life...
...According to Novelist Gustave Flaubert, Satan once disguised himself as the Queen of Sheba, exclaimed to Anthony: "I am not a woman; I am a world. My cloak has only to fall for thee to discover a succession of mysteries...
...Novelist Chase is a descendant of John Woolman, who, thanks to his Journal, is probably the best known U.S. Quaker...
...literary virtues than in its theme: the search for a valid religious faith by four despairing New Yorkers. They might be taken, together, as representing the common man. None of them had thought much about religion until World War II. Their contemporary torment is bluntly portrayed by Novelist Walworth with the forcefulness of the common woman...
...Author. Nicodemus is Author Walworth's fourth novel (the others: Faith of Our Fathers; They Thought They Could Buy It; Feast of Reason). Daughter of a Methodist minister, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Merle Crowell, Novelist Walworth lives in a remodeled farmhouse in Chappaqua, N.Y. Says her friend, Writer Grace Perkins, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Fulton Oursler: "She's small, she's trig, and if she isn't younger than her married daughter, her heart doesn't know it. Her spiritual essence is a faith that permeates everything she does...