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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural history of mammals, Birds of the World and Reptiles and Amphibians, in press - are Federal Writers' Publications planned, edited, designed, and partially illustrated by me. Previous to WPA I owned a half interest in a Florida zoo since deleted by the Depression; served on expeditions of the New York Zoological Society to the Galapagos, Cuba, the Okefenokee Swamp;* worked between trips as a hardware salesman, ship's purser; wrote and published scientific articles and a children's book-Strange Animals and Their Ways. Appeared in 5th edition of American Men of Science at 25, just-published...
They reached Cocos. Only vestiges of life on the barren island were so many picks and shovels left by previous treasure hunters, that "it looked like an abandoned WPA project." With Countess di Frasso offering suggestions, the crew "dug hell out of that island," but they found only rocks. Bello did not mind; they would go fishing, he said...
...Palms (Random House, $2.50), it is a wild, outraged and outrageous novel, which boils over with outlandish humor and grotesque incident. Part of it is a swift story, funny and slightly maddening. Part of it is involved psychological analysis mixed with melodrama, just plain maddening. In most of his previous books Faulkner has written of a mythical Southern town. In The Wild Palms he has a new hero, but he has not left the South. This time his hero is the Mississippi...
...back in Oxford, and his financial situation was getting desperate. He had written a brilliant, bitter, difficult book, The Sound and the Fury, which Publisher Harrison Smith assured him would not sell. He had married Mrs. Estelle Oldham Franklin, an Oxford girl who had two children by a previous marriage. To make money he wrote a horror story, Sanctuary. It was rejected, too. He got a job shoveling coal at the Oxford power plant for $100 a month, working from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. From midnight until 4 a. m. he wrote, using an upturned wheelbarrow...
...Five of a Kind" is one of a kind with all previous extravaganzas about Canada's principal tourist attraction...