Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gentle Erskine Caldwell. Untermeyer not only wrote for Modern Masters but serves as Crowell-Collier's talent scout in rounding up other writers. Among them: Critic Mark Van Doren, Playwright William Saroyan, Poets John Ciardi, Conrad Aiken and Muriel Rukeyser. That mistress of creepy grownup prose, Novelist Shirley Jackson (The Lottery), has written a sunlit winner, Nine Magic Wishes. Erskine Caldwell, the drugstore Rabelais, has "dumfounded" Crowell-Collier with a primer described as "amazingly gentle." The usually dour Playwright Arthur Miller offers Jane's Blanket, which he outlines thus: "A little girl named Jane sadly watches...
...seems to me a minor writer with a fairly good comic talent and strong protest in a few books." Lynn mentioned two novels from the '30's. In Dubious Battle and Steinbeck's most famous work, Grapes of Wrath. The Nobel Prize, however, was ostensibly awarded for The Winter of Our Discontent, published last year and panned by critics...
...father, the noted illustrator N. C. (for Newell Convers) Wyeth, originally settled in Chadds Ford to study with Howard Pyle. When young Andy showed signs of talent in his early teens, his father began to teach him every secret of technique he knew, but he never sought to impose his own style. "My father," says Wyeth, "was a great teacher because he would never talk about how he would do anything. He would always talk about the object and the quality of that object. He might make you see the depth of the object, not how it should be painted...
...could scarcely read until he was 14, still has to depend on his wife to extricate him from his lawless spelling. N. C. Wyeth was delighted to have his son at home on the ground that "no great artist ever went to college." Year after year, Andy's talent grew, until the time came when the great illustrator himself was being introduced as "Andrew Wyeth's father." Today, Wyeth commands the highest prices* of any living U.S. artist, but he feels that he may some day repeat his father's experience. His only pupil is his sensitive...
...conducted on the side. He then borrowed $3,500 more to buy a petroleum distributorship in Mississippi, gradually added a tank-truck fleet and a string of service stations. Drafted into the Air Force during World War II, Milner found that the Army did not require all of his talent. While making $68 a month as a sergeant, he made as much as $5,000 a month more as owner of a used-car lot beyond the barracks gates...