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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Apley may have been a snob-but he also had something for which his creator had undisguised admiration: "Essential and undeviating discipline of background." Wickford Point came even closer to home. It was the story of a popular writer, a Harvard graduate, reacting against the decadence and futile ancestor worship of his tumble-down New England family. And if the hero had the unmistakable air of the author himself-the pipe-smoking, tweedy, dressed-by-Brooks-Brothers blueblood-the hero's family was also unquestionably Marquand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: J. P. MARQUAND | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

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