Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this neglected locale, Fiesta In Manhattan is the first novel of a 34-year-old New Jerseyite, who discovered Lower Harlem's barrio by way of Mexico, where he spent a year as the happy alternative to going into his father's silk business...
...best known books are "Joseph in Egypt," a monumental work as yet only partially written, and "The Magic Mountain," the novel which was instrumental in winning for its author the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. Of his other writings "Tonio Kreeger" and "Buddenbrooks" are the best known in America...
...Knickerbocker Holiday' is a new experience both for the actors and those among the spectators who are seeing the play for the second or third time. I've spoken to some people who've seen the play more than ten times, and they claim that they discover something novel with each succeeding visit...
Last fortnight Negley Farson did at last crack up-but only fictitiously, in a semi-autobiographical novel about a famous U. S. newspaperman who ends up drinking himself to death in a backwoods cabin in British Columbia. An awkwardly constructed, Lost Generation novel, teeming with love affairs, ineffective cures for alcoholism, neurotic athleticism, it will be read for its confessional thrills. But it will arouse little sympathy, despite the alibi that its drunken hero is an idealist "still searching for the impossible in love, still clinging to many of his childhood ecstasies and still uncalloused...
Negley Farson was born too late. In the heydey of Harold Bell Wright he could not have failed, with that hero and those backwoods, to write an inspirational novel which would have sold a million...