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...elder and chartered by Congress, it soon took in artists and classicists. Now, aided by 50 U.S. colleges and universities, it stands as one of the finest overseas representatives of U.S. culture. Among its alumni: Playwright Thornton Wilder, Classicist Robert F. Goheen (see above), Novelists Ralph Ellison and William Styron, Poets Richard Wilbur and John Ciardi, Composers Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions...
Editor Haydn has worked with such authors as Jerome (The Enemy Camp) Weidman and Ayn (The Fountainhead) Rand, discovered or brought along such young novelists as William (Lie Down in Darkness) Styron and H. L. (Paris Underground) Humes. Says another of his authors, Truman Capote: "He is one of these very fatherly types. He is aggressively normal-you can see the blink behind the eye even though the eye is open. He is very much the commuter, and really the perfect editor-for people who need an editor...
...article, published on February 21, was based on observations of this winter's Bicker, and was called by one judge, "a remarkable piece of social commentary,...handsomely written." Judges of this year's entries were Cass Canfield, chairman of the editorial board of Harper and Bros., novelist William Styron, and Meyer Berger, reporter on the New York Times...
...both Hall and Train are on its staff, and that the magazine's manifesto proclaims that it will "strive to give predominant space to the fiction and poetry of both established and new writers, rather than to people who use words like Zeitgeist." The manifesto was written by William Styron, young author of the excellent novel "Lie Down in Darkness," whose pet phobia is the word, "Zeitgeist." He writes in the preface to the first issue of "The Paris Review" that "I still don't like the word, perhaps because, complying with the traditional explanation of intolerance, I am ignorant...
...their literature too often runs to querulous and self-protective introspection, or voices a pale, orthodox liberalism that seems more second-hand than second nature. On the whole, the young writer today is a better craftsman than the beginner of the '205. Novelists like Truman Capote, William Styron and Frederick Buechner are precocious technicians, but their books have the air of suspecting that life is long on treachery, short on rewards. What some critics took for healthy revolt in James Jones's From Here to Eternity was really a massively reiterated gripe against life. But Jones...