Word: essayist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...published in the U.S. this fall. What has irked the puppet Kadar regime more and more in recent months is the "silent strike" of Hungary's unjailed writers, who refuse to raise a pen in salute to the government. Kadar's literary commissar is a hack essayist aptly named George Boloni, who is vainly trying to woo or to coerce the silent strikers. To preserve the illusion of literary activity, the regime reprints old books. Scoffs Journalist Paul Tabori, a longtime exile in Britain: "If they can find a poet of a hundred years ago who wrote...
Died. Elmer Holmes Davis, 68, Hoo-sier-twanging radio news analyst, World War II head of the Office of War Information, a founding father of ADA, sometime novelist, essayist (But We Were Born Free), idealist ("It's better to be a dead lion than a live dog"); of complications following a stroke; in Washington, D.C. A Rhodes scholar who wrote personal letters in finest Latin, Davis was a longtime (1914-24) New York Times reporter and editorial writer...
...remarkable about Stars is that it is a fictionalized memoir from an author who is himself blind. Between the ages of 17 and 19, Novelist Bjarnhof lost his sight, subsequently toured as a concert cellist and became one of Denmark's leading men of letters. Active as an essayist, newspaper editor and radio interviewer, Karl Bjarnhof has published seven novels. Stars, which appeared in Denmark in 1956 and has since been translated into six languages, is the sixth. It is a measure of Author Bjarnhof's rigorously won success that he makes his hero's tormented saga...
...that, and he is certainly not mute, being one of the most relentlessly prolific authors now at work. The book jacket of his latest collection of miscellaneous pieces says, "There is only one Robert Graves," but this is patently untrue. There are many-the poet, novelist, critic, scholar, mythologist, essayist, general literary pundit and japester. All of them in this thoroughly entertaining volume are in top form...
Died. H. M. (for Henry Major) Tomlinson, 84, self-taught, world-renowned English novelist (Gallions Reach), Conrad-like chronicler of his own seafaring adventures (The Sea and the Jungle) and essayist (A Mingled Yarn), onetime (World War I) correspondent (for the London Daily News) and (1917-23) literary editor (of the Nation and Athenaeum) ; in London...