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...East presents a tragic picture of modern flesh & blood conspirators whose intense lives are sacrificed for the cause they have made their own. The author of Express to the East is almost as mysterious as the organization of which he writes. Den Doolard, which means The Wanderer, is the pseudonym of C. Spoelstra, 34-year-old Dutch novelist, adventurer, roving editor of an outdoor-sports magazine, now traveling in the Near East. Although his novels are popular in Holland, they have not won the endorsement of intellectual bigwigs, who created a sensation when they refused to award him the Dutch...
When Mari Sandoz. writing under a pseudonym, won honorable mention in the Harper Intercollegiate Short Story Contest in 1925, her aging, domineering father thundered at her: "You know I consider writers and artists the maggots of society!" But on the last day of his life, when he was demented with pain, disease and alcohol, "Old Jules'' Sandoz broke down and urged her to tell the story of his struggles as a homesteader and community builder, in the desolate Running Water region of western Nebraska. Last week his daughter fulfilled his wish with a biography that won the Atlantic...
This exhibition is characterized by the numerous ideas which it has to offer. One contributor, working under the pseudonym of Melearth, has mixed sand in his paint, and, in representing flowers, has applied gobs of paint directly from the tube...
Edgar Lee Masters wrote Spoon River under the pseudonym of Webster Ford because he deeply distrusted the value of this work. A Chicago lawyer of 45, he was fighting a case in the Supreme Court of Illinois and an injunction against the Waitresses' Union while his poems were meeting their first extraordinary response. Born in Garnett, Kans., in 1869, he had spent most of his life in Illinois, where he learned the printing trade, worked on newspapers, studied law and wrote thin volumes of conventional verse. Like so many of his generation he looked upon poetry less...
...Yorker, a member of the staff of FORTUNE, now does free-lance writing. A respected poet in his own right, he married Poetess Louise Bogan in 1925, is the author of a biography of Lincoln and of two detective stories which were published under a carefully-guarded pseudonym...