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...Like Winesburg, Ohio...
...late Sherwood (Winesburg, Ohio) Anderson was a hard man to tap for a free book, according to the current Saturday Review of Literature. Answering the Chicago Historical Society's request for a copy of his novel Marching Men, Rebel Anderson wrote, in 1917: ". . . I am not a popular writer, at least the royalty checks from my publishers do not indicate that I am. My books are seriously discussed by our American deep-sea thinkers but they are not bought by the man in the street . . . Make the publishers give you one if you can. Don't tackle...
...Helen Choate Bell Prize will be divided between Stanley J. Friedman '48 of Brooklyn, New York and Adams House and Cyrus I. Harvey, Jr. '47 of Boston and Winthrop House. Friedman submitted an essay entitled "Theodore Dreiser and the Dispossessed," while Harvey's was entitled "Winesburg, Ohio: A Reinterpretation...
Meanwhile, he's happy at CBS. His first broadcast was an adaptation of Mal colm Lowry's currently fashionable novel about an alcoholic Briton in Mexico, Under the Volcano (TIME, Feb. 24). Up coming: Topaze, a telescoped Winesburg, Ohio and an updated An Enemy of the People...
Tarkington's touchstones, in fact, were always a set of innocent values which he conceived to be "true blue American." In Alice Adams he matched his gifts against new and younger writers who questioned those values. Winesburg, Ohio, had been published in 1919; Main Street had been published in 1920, so had This Side of Paradise. The jazz age-which was also a self-critical and troubled age-had begun. But Booth Tarkington was 51. After his young success with costume romance (Monsieur Beaucaire) and carefree playwriting abroad with Harry Leon Wilson (The Man from Home), he had gone...