Word: willa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thoughts. Since William Faulkner is convinced that good whisky is an aid to enticing the muse, could Wilder explain how liquor helps? Replied he: "Many writers have told me that they have built up mnemonic devices to start them off ... Hemingway once told me he sharpened 20 pencils, Willa Gather that she read a passage from the Bible, not from piety . . . but to get in touch with fine prose. My own springboard has always been long walks. I drink a great deal, but I do not associate it with writing...
...Letters proclaimed Novelist John (U.S.A.) Dos Passes, 61, the winner of its gold medal for fiction, handed out once every ten years. Presented for the "lasting contribution" of an author's entire works, the gold medal has previously gone to such literary lights as Thornton Wilder, Booth Tarkington, Willa Cather, William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton...
...Hints. Woman's Home Companion was founded in Cleveland in 1873. One of the early service magazines, it was loaded with helpful hints and departments ranging from Mother's Corner to Flowers, Care and Culture. Companion also carried serials by such women writers as Edna Ferber and Willa Gather. In recent years the staid Companion had lost ground to such rivals as Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping and McCall...
...friends' donations; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. A gentle, indomitable woman who wore an old-fashioned pompadour and dressed in purple silk and white stockings, Marian MacDowell presided until 1946 over the rustic 600-acre MacDowell Colony, which sheltered 16 Pulitzer Prize winners, including Thornton Wilder, Willa Gather, Aaron Copland, Edwin Arlington Robinson and Stephen Vincent Benet...
...Reread Willa. Author Siebel's grim little slice of life has the troubling oppressiveness of a Grant Wood painting. Her portrait has a frame of iron, and within it poor Ella and all the rest do not have a chance because Julia Siebel never meant them to have one. Hatred for the harsh side of farm life is here, and hatred for the narrowness of small-town life, but it comes out as a pathological hatred instead of a meaningful one and Ella Beecher seems not so much tragic as vegetable. The publishers compare this embittered tale with...