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...backwoods Florida (The Yearling, Golden Apples); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Augustine. Fla. For ten years, hopeful Author Rawlings worked on newspapers, potboiled syndicated verse, wrote (but seldom sold) short stories. In 1928 she settled in Florida's remote swamp country, three years later won a Scribner's novelette contest, turned out two popular novels before The Yearling (1938) won her fame and a fortune in royalties. In 1942 she accurately recorded the manners & morals of her adopted neighbors (Cross Creek), when death came was hard at work on a biography of Virginia Novelist Ellen Glasgow...
...ORDEAL OF GEORGE MEREDITH (368 pp.)-Lionel Stevenson-Scribner...
...SHIP (429 pp.) - Alan Villiers-Scribner...
...Story of Esther Costello (Knopf). It is a skillfully written attack on the ruthless ballyhoo which makes an innocent handicapped girl the center of a charity racket. Another novelist who finds it hard to do anything seriously wrong is Wright Morris. In The Deep Sleep (Scribner), he dissects the private lives of a Philadelphia Main Line family, and shows that things aren't what they seem to the neighbors. In his new book, In Love (Harper), Alfred Hayes, author of The Girl on the Via Flaminia, explores an unpleasant Manhattan love affair without writing an unpleasant book...
DEAD MAN IN THE SILVER MARKET (203 pp.)-Aubrey Menen-Scribner...