Word: bambi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Books-10,000 copies of each title-was confined to the New York area. At first week's end they were a sellout. (First to go were Wuthering Heights and Dorothy Parker's Enough Rope, with The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Felix Salten's Bambi bringing up the rear.) Macy's sold 4,100 copies in six days. Booksellers said they brought new faces into their stores. Newsstands did an arm-aching business, as did Grand Central Terminal "train butchers...
...Bambi," a forthcoming picture of the life of a deer, Feild predicted, "Without a shadow of doubt it will make art history...
Interned as a dangerous non-Aryan in a Nazi concentration camp was mild little Felix Salten, 68-year-old Viennese author (Bambi, The Hound of Florence) of mild little books about animals, who once said: "If you would keep men from becoming as animals, strive ever to see animals...
...bullied as a school child. Author Salten learned young to pity both men and animals. Born in Ofenpest, Austria, in 1869, he had to make a living out of family charity until his writing began to pay. Thereafter, besides practicing journalism in Vienna, he has written some 20 books. Bambi, his first book published in America, telling the life story of a buck in the Wienerwald, was a great success. Others: The Hound of Florence, Fifteen Rabbits, Samson & Delilah...
...Author. Felix Salten, born Saltzmann of Budapest, but a Viennese most of his 60-odd years, is known in the U. S. as a novelist, through recent translations of Bambi, The Hound of Florence. In Europe Schnitzler, Wassermann, Werfel- all personal friends-Galsworthy, Mann, many others acclaim him as essayist and dramatist. Some 20 of his books are appearing in an authorized edition in Vienna; the U. S. will have them eventually in English. Last June found him in the U. S. suffering entertainment with quiet, smiling urbanity. A Jew, he is not a Zionist, disclaims all ists and isms...