Word: vechten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These summaries help explain why publisher after publisher turned down Author Purdy's collection of short stories. Privately printed last year by two of his friends, the stories found few readers but avid ones. Poets Marianne Moore and Dame Edith Sitwell praised them. Aging (77) Novelist Carl Van Vechten was so impressed that he presented a collection of James Purdy's papers to the Yale library. After British publication last summer, a moderately daring U.S. firm, New Directions, finally took on the Purdy product. On the whole it was worth...