Word: sellers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he retires this summer, Professor McIlwain will move to his 150 acre farm in Maryland, where he will busy himself with book-writing. Though reluctant to reveal his subject matter, he says, with a canny Scotch eye on the best-seller list, "Stories of personal experience on the farm, such as "The Egg and I'm seem to be selling well. 'Maybe I can write something like 'The Professor...
...Like a shy waterfowl who has hatched out a dragon's egg, I find that I have written a 'best-seller.' 'Unseasonably,' because the time has passed when the event brings any substantial reward. In a civilized age this unexpected moment of popularity would have endowed me with a competency for life. ... As it is, the politicians confiscate my earnings and I am left with the correspondence...
Dragonwyck (20th Century-Fox), an American-Gothic period piece based on a best-seller by Novelist Anya Seton, won't teach anyone much about the patroon system or the anti-rent wars, but it ought to teach a lesson to every simple farm girl in Greenwich, Conn...
...years as a 'tween-wars Timesman in Moscow, Duranty won a Pulitzer prize for reporting (1932). wrote a best-seller (I Write As I Please) and some undistinguished fiction. A gay and worldly-wise little man, he got to know the Soviet Russians, stored up a vast stockpile of anecdotes for U.S. lecture audiences...
There is the honest, talented writer who has never published a serious book, but priggishly signs his detective stories with a nom de plume. He winds up cadging drinks, clowning out parody first lines of poems, and warming up bedroom scenes in a hack-written best-seller about two U.S. families who take part in every war since the Revolution. ("After all, I was the person who suggested the whole idea of having Nancy Gaylord be the mother of Walt Whitman's illegitimate child-it's terrific. He meets her at the Mardi Gras and lays...