Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roberts had dedicated his book (like three later ones) to Booth Tarkington, one day dropped in to see him. Roberts said he wanted to write a novel...
Grandmother Tibbets' stories had been swirling around his head all those years. Moreover, he had read Schoolmaster-Postmaster Charles Bradbury's History of Kennebunkport, was determined to write a novel about the Louisburg expedition. He was in one of his rages because he had collected so much research that even in his own mind he could not condense it into an outline of anything resembling a novel...
January 1930 was the worst possible moment for a historical novel to come out. Amid long and difficult labor pains, the "proletarian" novel was being born. If the hero and heroine spoke bad English mixed with a brave obscenity, they were proletarians. Characters who spoke good English were, by Depression critical standards, the enemies of progress...
History Repeats. It takes Kenneth Roberts about five years to finish a novel, two of which he spends in research (meanwhile finishing another book). He revises his books five or six times, sometimes makes 200 corrections per page, smokes more & more cotton-tufted Parliament cigarets as he gets going. When a novel is all in, so, as a rule, is Author Roberts...
Planners like Tugwell have been batting up a novel solution to this problem: abolish local real-estate taxes altogether. Property owners would pay just an income tax, and that to the Federal Government. Even cautious politicos like LaGuardia have been intrigued. Last winter he told the New York Board of Trade he wanted just one big tax collector -the Federal Government. The taxes it collected from each city and State would be allocated back to them on a kind of credit system. Workable or not, this kind of arrangement would do two things: it would stop the tax race between...