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WORLD'S END-Upton Sinclair-Viking...
...months ago Sinclair Lewis went touring in his native Middle West, scene of Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry. One day in Madison, Wis. he met University of Wisconsin's President Clarence A. Dykstra, took such a fancy to academic life that he impulsively offered to teach Wisconsin's students without pay. President Dykstra agreed...
...departure was outwardly amicable, the Milwaukee Journal reported that he had told a friend: "I've had enough of the faculty objecting to this and that. I'm through." The Journal also unearthed the reason for the faculty's hostility: they feared, despite his denials, that Sinclair Lewis planned to write a novel about them...
...Critic Bernard De Voto observed: "So far none of Ernest Hemingway's characters has had any more consciousness than a jaguar." Critic Max Eastman wrote his Bull in the Afternoon, one day traded blows with angry Author Hemingway in the most diverting literary brawl since Theodore Dreiser punched Sinclair Lewis. There was a feeling abroad that Hemingway was a little too obsessed with sex, a little too obsessed with blood for the sake of blood, killing for the sake of killing. Even his admirers wondered where he was going to find another experience big enough to make him write...
...rest of the U. S. in the 1929 crash; 5) George's four years of soul searching in sordid, proletarian South Brooklyn; 6) George's life in England while writing another book; 7) George's two-day adventures with Novelist Lloyd McHarg (in real life Sinclair Lewis, who plugged Thomas Wolfe in his Nobel Prize address); 8) George's return to Germany and dissatisfaction with the Nazis, although George was one of Nazi Germany's favorite U. S. authors (as was Thomas Wolfe); 9) George's return to the U. S. and break with...