Word: oppenheims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five years later, the boy sold a short story and at 20 his first novel came out. His father died and for a while Author Oppenheim had to manage the family leather business in Leicester. Thereafter and down to the present stretched 40 years of turning out at least two novels per annum...
...Oppenheim likes best to write ? that is, dictate ? in the morning, but, that being his favorite time for golf, he has acquired the artificial habit of writing in the late afternoon until dinner time. He perennially roams European capitals and the U. S. picking up his cosmopolitan types and plots, chiefly in cafés and from hotel managers. His types and plots are everything. The plainest pigments of human nature are sufficient to color up the assorted shapes of the characters and show brightly as they race through skeins of intrigue...
...Oppenheim's homes are on the French Riviera (Cagnes) and in London. Without professing to be a prophet, he notes that he foretold the Boer War in one novel, the World War in 14 novels. He was said to be on a list of Londoners to be shot at once when the Germans should conquer England, whose Intelligence Service he assisted...
When the World War ended, Mr. Oppenheim's friends sympathized. He would have nothing further to write about, they feared. But now, a guileless reader of handwriting on walls, a firm insister on plausibility, he finds that "the stage is set for even more tragic happenings...
...Miss BROWN OF X. Y. 0.? ^E. Phillips Oppenheim ? Little, Brown...