Word: essayist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...because he could find no other lodging, partly because it did not matter: he has a bohemian preference for unpretentious surroundings; in Paris, the literary lion makes his den in the dingy, unheated Hotel Louisiane. Few Americans had heard even vaguely of earnest, ebullient Jean-Paul Sartre, novelist, playwright, essayist and prophet of the philosophy of life known as "Existentialism." But more were likely to become aware of him and his message...
...UNQUIET GRAVE - "Palinurus" (Cyril Connolly]-Harper ($2.50). Cyril Connolly is a British writer of a type almost unknown in the U.S.: an essayist (Enemies of Promise), critic and editor whose influence is as great as his output is small. During the past six years, his bright literary monthly, Horizon, has become must reading for British intellectuals. In The Unquiet Grave, Critic Connolly lets his sizable group of followers down. He serves up a bitter salad of clever preciosity and engaging self-pity: a collection of notes about love, art and religion jotted down while he was on fire-watching duty...
Died. Felix Salten, 76, Viennese essayist, novelist, dramatist, known in the U.S. only for his sometimes touching, sometimes saccharine books about animals (most famed: Bambi, Disneyized in 1942) ; after long illness; in Zurich, Switzerland...
Died. Thomas Burke, 59, British novelist and essayist, whose most famed book, Limehouse Nights (cinemadapted into D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms'), was a lurid capitalization on his orphaned boyhood in London's dockside slums; after an operation; in London...
...strong toasts and heavy talks with Moscow's leading editors, who for the first time were all gathered at a dinner for foreign visitors. The U.S. visitors listened politely to an angry diatribe by Russia's cantankerous Reporter Ilya Ehrenburg (whom the editors describe drily as an "essayist" for the Government), and sat through "almost identical speeches" by the editors of Pravda and Izvestia, who insisted that only the U.S.S.R. had a truly free press. They concluded that Russian editors get their ideas of the U.S. press from such books as Upton Sinclair's Brass Check...