Word: tropics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even before Author Anaïs Nin (rhymes with bean) had found a commercial publisher for her work, her name was a password among the avantgarde. Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller proclaimed her unpublished diary worthy to "take its place beside the revelations of St. Augustine, Petronius, Rousseau, Proust and others." By 1944 Paris-born Author Nin had arrived in Greenwich Village, privately published three books, and decided to "convert and transpose the diary of 65 volumes into a full, long novel . . ." Like her other two published novels Ladders to Fire (1946) and Children of the Albatross...
...tunes. Playwright Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire) explores more horror south of the Mason-Dixon line in the story of a frigid, middle-aged writer's passion for a horsy Mexican girl, also contributes some frank blank verse titled Counsel about Paris whorehouses. Expatriate Novelist Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer) writes his way around his subject (Rimbaud) and plunges defiantly into his own thrice-told life and hard times. Most engaging poet: William Carlos Williams, who keeps his verse free and his imagery fresh...