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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WATERS UNDER THE EARTH-Martha Ostenso - Dodd, Mead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father-Love | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Matt Welland had a wife and seven children. With the best will in the world he ruined the lives of all except the youngest. His instruments: hypocrisy, religion, love. But so cunningly does Martha Ostenso lay on her colors that in the completed portrait of this family there is not one figure you can hate wholeheartedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father-Love | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...Author. Blonde, bobbed-haired, born in Bergen (Norway), Martha Ostenso arrived early in the U. S. She had been writing only two years when her Wild Geese won (1925) a $13,500 Dodd-Mead-Famous-Players-Pictorial Review Prize. She is 30, unmarried. Other books: The Dark Dawn, The Mad Carews, The Young May Moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father-Love | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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