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...Kent School while he was a student there. His first novel was Confusion published in his Sophomore year at Harvard. Saturday Evening Post, Pictorial Review, Woman's Home Companion buy his short stories. Other books: Michael Scarlett, Cockpit, Son of Perdition. Last year S.S. San Pedro appeared in Scribner's Magazine, has been selected as one of two books by the Book-of-the-Month Club for September...
...unhappy while in one of Dr. Barnardo's London orphanages. A timid and touchy man, Gosse was not cut out to be a good mixer with the masses. He got a job in the cataloguing section of the British Museum, became successively London agent for U. S. Publisher Scribner, lecturer at Cambridge, Librarian of the House of Lords. Gosse, who loved the peerage, liked being its Librarian; was desolated when he was retired in 1914. Pedantic but not a first-rate scholar, Gosse once published a book (From Shakespeare to Pope) which was full of detectable howlers; they were...
MANY THOUSANDS GONE-John Peale Bishop-Scribner ($2.50).* Not only in biography but, more significantly, in fiction U. S. writers are more & more turning to U. S. subjects. And to a generation that is still scraping off the mud and blood of the War to End War the comparatively chivalrous affair between North and South has an increasingly romantic appeal. These five short stories, with one exception, are tales of the Civil War from the Southern point of view. A Southern farmer comes home to find his mother's grave ripped open by Yankee raiders. He traps them...
...Wilson went to Manhattan to play the literary game, ran Vanity Fair together, published a partnered book, The Undertaker's Garland. Then Wilson went on to higher things, Bishop to France and Italy. He lives near Paris in a Louis XIII house. Many Thousands Gone (containing the Scribner $5,000-prize story of that title) is his second book. His first: Green Fruit (poems...
BURTON, ARABIAN NIGHTS ADVENTURER ?Fairfax Downey?Scribner...