Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell Marsh, 49, author of the bestselling novel Gone With the Wind; of injuries suffered when she was run down by an automobile; in Atlanta. A onetime reporter for the Atlanta Journal (1922-26), diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.) Margaret Mitchell, bedridden and later on crutches after an accident in 1926, was prompted by husband John Marsh to write a novel instead of straining her eyes reading them. She wrote on & off for nearly ten years, reluctantly surrendered her incomplete manuscript to the Macmillan Co. in 1935. The monumental (1,037 pages) Civil War romance...
Meet the People. That is the whole story of A Rage to Live, John Henry O'Hara's new novel, his first in eleven years. But it is not O'Hara's whole intent. Like his earlier taut and febrile novels (Appointment in Samarra, Butterfield 8), A Rage to Live is shot through with enough gratuitous sex to get itself talked about. But unlike them it attempts the kind of large-scale social portraiture which could easily be the framework of the Great American Novel. Rage is not that. Its wide-lensed look at U.S. small...
...into Queen Victoria's dining room one evening, and thereby briefly set the Empire on its ear. Since it appears that something like this did happen once upon a time, Author Bonnet's job in The Mudlark was to fluff up the fact into a light historical novel. This, with the help of a lot of imaginary speeches and caperings by the Queen, William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli, he has done well enough...
There is just enough ingenuity in The Mudlark's conception and skill in its writing to sustain a fine long story. Author Bonnet has chosen to pad it outrageously in order to fill the regulation-size novel. The book suffers as a result, but it is pleasant enough for an afternoon of hammock reading...
Fate of Man. To prevent his whale from swallowing his novel, Melville had to create a hero powerful enough to combat it. Such was Captain Ahab, in the novel's first draft merely "from Nantucket" but in its final version "from humanity...Fate's lieutenant." He seined such old tomes as Beale's Natural History of the Sperm Whale and Scoresby's Account of the Arctic Regions for obscure facts...