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...Frank Swinnerton...
...Frank Swinnerton has arrived in America almost on the heels of the publication of his Young Felix?, a novel rapidly gaining in public favor, and critical acclaim. Swinnerton, himself, is one of the most amiable men in the world. He is short?with small hands which he uses much to emphasize conversational points. He has a red beard, wears glasses, smiles almost constantly. His witticisms?mainly anecdotal and dramatic?follow one another in rapid succession. He is amazed and delighted by America and feels himself mothered by her hospitality...
...Swinnerton has tried his best to spend some money since his arrival. He finally succeeded, the other evening, in getting rid of what he calls "one hundred and fifty cents." He found it quite easy to get around in Manhattan until he asked for a "paper knife." No one seemed to be able to supply him with what he needed. Finally he was informed that what he wanted was a "paper cutter." He was immediately relieved and carried this ivory implement about with him all day. He has been in town only a week and he has met "everyone," from...
...Swinnerton has had a somewhat difficult life. Much of Young Felix is autobiographical. He was born in a suburb of London and as a child went through various struggles to achieve both a personality and an education. This has marked him with a shyness which is now less a matter of reality than a survival of what, I imagine, was an earlier manner. He was associated with a publishing house at an early age, and is now literary adviser and reader to Chatto & Windus in London. Many of his novels have been written under the most trying circumstances, when...
...acknowledges his debt to Bennett and Wells?but this debt is more evident to him than to his readers?for to me, certainly, Swinnerton's style possesses a freshness which makes it absolutely his own. That we must return to an approximation of the 18th Century novel, the novel of Fielding, is his belief. Any novelist, Mr. Swinnerton holds, to write a really great novel must possess both a sense of humor and an almost overpowering love of mankind...