Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Haines knows whereof he is writing. Though only 25, he has spent seven years as a lineman on power highways and electrical railroads. But in celebrating his craft and the men who pursue it, he has not overlooked the fact that novel writing is also a craft in itself. He has mastered the new calling as thoroughly as his hero. Slim, mastered the job of wire stringing. The tale is by turns hardboiled, sentimental, tragic, humorous. But the toughness, the sentiment, the tragedy and the humor all belong to a man's world. Pride of work comes first...
...Yorker, Scrib- ner's, Vanity Fair. "In addition," he says, "I have jerked soda, worked on two railroads and in a steel mill, on an ocean liner and a farm . . . bummed east and west, was a day laborer. I was married once. ..." Appointment in Samarra is his first novel. A volume of his short stories, The Doctor's Son, will be published this autumn...
...lout and a bit of a mountebank." While still an undergraduate he published a book of parodies (Brief Diversions), then went to London as literary adviser to a publisher, wrote book reviews for the London Mercury and the Daily News. The resounding success of The Good Companions, his second novel, freed him from Fleet Street. Once a widower and twice married, he has a family of five daughters, one son. Pudgy, slow-spoken, pipe-smoking. Author Priestley is an apotheosis of the sensible self-made British author...
...through Coe College selling news-Dapers. jerking soda. At the University of Iowa Stephen Vincent Benet gave him encouragement. As a Rhodes Scholar from Iowa he has completed his first year at Oxford (Merton College). Engle likes swimming and horses and is now "writing very hard on a horse novel." A first volume of verse, The Warm Earth, was published in 1933 by the Yale University press in its Younger Poets series...
...TIDDLER'S GROUND-Edward Shanks-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). No one will ever accuse Edward Shanks of genius but many a reader will welcome his Tom Tiddler's Ground, a lengthy (552 pp.) but unpretentious novel of pre-to-post-War England, with a lyrical German interlude. Author Shanks's dangerously broad subject gives him plenty of chances to be flashy, cynical or sentimental, but he steers his modest middle course between these pitfalls...