Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holding his silver rood before him, he walks up to an enemy patrol, is taken, stripped, spat on, and crucified against a door. The Author. Authoress Radclyffe Hall's maiden poetic effort was dictated at the age of three. By 1915 she had published five volumes of verse. Novel-writing, suggested by Publisher William Heinemann, followed: The Unlit Lamp, The Forge, A Saturday Life, Adam's Breed, The Well of Loneliness. The last, sympathetically telling the story of a girl born sexually inverted, created a stir because of its literary merits, a scandal because of its theme...
...Maurois biographical writing is a method of escape. Emile Herzog (he adopted the pseudonym since his first book, a war novel, was published while he was still an officer in the French army) was destined for the role of a "chef d'industrie" in his father's cloth factory in Elbeuf. But an active business career did not interest him. He turned novelist and for a while he was known as the "humorous author of a pair of war books." That was hardly satisfactory, but "from the entanglement of passion we escape by action." Action: where was it? Mr. Maurois...
...Buchman's methods in militant religion are superficially novel, essentially age-old. He is more genteel than Billy Sunday, more subtle than Almes MacPherson. Instead of clawing the devil before thousands in temple or arena, he carries on painless soul surgery in the well upholstered living room of the rich. Here about the fire-side boys and girls "come clean" and "make their souls feel wonderful...
...Warner). Edna Ferber's Pulitzer Prize novel would have been a better picture if its story had been told in a manner more pictorial, less bookish. Yet it is the best cinema in which Barbara Stanwyck has appeared to date. She is Selina Peake, whose father, a Chicago gambler, gets shot in the course of business. He leaves her with an expensive education, no money, a belief that "life is so much velvet...
...Author? For 20 years a musical and dramatic critic droop-headed Sophisticate Van Vechten wrote his first novel, Peter Whiffle, at 42. Since then The Blind Bow-Boy, The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Spider Boy, Parties have ripened his racy fame. Besides memories he collects autographs, postcards, pamphlets, book jackets, cats...