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UNFINISHED CATHEDRAL-T. S. Stribling-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Last week Thomas Sigismund Stribling hung his hat in the U. S. Hall of Fame. From unconsidered and inconsiderable beginnings he had made his slow, steady way to the forefront of U. S. letters. When in 1931 he published the first part (The Forge) of his triple-decker novel of the South, it caused little stir. The second volume (The Store) won him the Pulitzer Prize and was chosen by the Literary Guild. Last week appeared the final part of Author Stribling's trilogy (Unfinished Cathedral), which in turn was chosen...
...Author. Born at Clifton, Tenn. 53 years ago, Thomas Sigismund Stribling has never wandered far from his spiritual home. Tall, baldish, professorial-looking, with a prognathous but benevolent jaw, he started out to be a schoolteacher, failed as a disciplinarian. Though he looks like a bachelor he is married. Familiar with hackwriting, he served a long apprenticeship turning out Sunday School stories, detectification, melodrama. When he wrote Teeftallow (1926), a story of his Tennessee hill country, critics first began to notice him. Last April U. S. radio-listeners followed suit, when his radio novel, Conflict, began to be broadcast over...
Scientist Albert Einstein who spends his spare time fiddling, received a letter from one Sigismund Alexander, jobless Jewish violinist, asking help. Professor Einstein replied: "I live a very, very quiet life here in Princeton and could not help you directly to find job. But your letter was very interesting to me-so much so that I promise herewith to write an autographic letter of thanks to anyone who gives you a job for at least a month...
...Best Novel-Thomas Sigismund Stribling. $1,000 for The Store (TIME, July 4). Best Play-Maxwell Anderson, $1,000 for Both Your Houses (TIME, Mar. 13). Best History-to the late Frederick J. Turner, $2,000 for The Significance of Sections in American History. Best Biography-Allan Nevins. $1,000 for Grover Cleveland (TIME, Jan. 2). Best Volume of Verse-Archibald MacLeish of the editorial staff of FORTUNE, $1,000 for Conquistador (TIME, April...
...Author. Born in Tennessee, 1881, Thomas Sigismund Stribling was graduated from the University of Alabama in 1904, wrote super-Sundayschoolish stories for the Nashville Sundayschool magazine. From such efforts he made a slow recovery. Birthright, his first novel, was published in 1921. Ten years later he began publishing his cycle for which he has been gathering material all his life. Says he of its characters, its locale: "To talk about whom I interviewed for this book is nonsense. I was born into it and when I get out of it, I'll die out of it." Other books: Fombombo...