Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweetheart, Grace Brown, out in a rowboat, drowned her because Grace was pregnant and Chester wanted to marry a rich girl. For a generation Chester Gillette's crime and punishment were forgotten by the outside world until Theodore Dreiser exhumed the case, wrote a wordy but exhaustive novel about it called An American Tragedy. Since 1926 the Dreiser story of "Clyde Griffiths' " downfall has become a sort of national institution...
...first Prize Novel contest was held in 1922-23, when "The Able McLaughlins" by Margaret Wilson was adjudged the winner. This novel was later awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Last years' winner was "Honey in the Horn" by H. L. Davis...
Only unpublished novels are acceptable, and contestants must also attach a statement that the work is submitted in competition for the prize. Preference will be given to works of general novel length; that is, from 60 to 100,000 words, and no entry of under 30,000 words will be accepted...
...Prize Novel is chosen for "conspicuous merit and the underlying purpose of the award is to give prominence and success to a writer who has not hitherto found a wide audience." The author must be a citizen of the United States and not have published a novel in book form before January...
...readers who have followed Vardis Fisher to this fourth and final volume of his autobiographical novel, his hero's complete candor in showing himself at times a stubborn fool, a dreary bore, a nearly crazy introspect, will end by impressing them with his struggle for honesty. In the earlier books his wrestling to be free from his Nessus' shirt was more painful to watch than not. Now that he has got it mostly off, the scarified body shows sturdy if not beautiful...