Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Books (TIME, March 6) you reviewed a mystery novel entitled The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, with these words: "Detective Marlowe is plunged into a mess of murderers, thugs, and psychopaths who make the characters of Dashiell Hammett and James Cain look like something out of Godey's Lady's Book...
John Phillips Marquand, 45, is a tall, blue-eyed New Englander, a successful contributor to the Satevepost, who last year won literary as well as financial success with his best-selling novel, The Late George Apley...
...reputation in little magazines as a talented short-story writer. This fact, however, he kept a close secret from his business associates. His stories were published under the pseudonym of William March. His literary output and reputation, though not his literary earnings, increased rapidly. In 1933 appeared a War novel, Company K; in 1936 his powerful novel of Georgia mill hands, The Tallons...
Marquand received the Pulitzer Prize last year for his novel "The Late George Apley," which like his latest novel, concerns a Boston family with generations of Harvard graduates...
...Somehow nothing is quite right when one suddenly spends ten million dollars," is a comment made about the Houses by a Harvard alumnus in a new novel by John P. Marquand '15, Pulitzer Prize winner and satirist of Boston's intellectual society...