Word: fombombo
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...cycle for which he has been gathering material all his life. Says he of its characters, its locale: "To talk about whom I interviewed for this book is nonsense. I was born into it and when I get out of it, I'll die out of it." Other books: Fombombo, Red Sand, Teeftallow, Bright Metal, Strange Moon, Clues of the Carribees, Backwater. The Store is the Literary Guild's July choice...
...Sunday school magazine. These, turned off at the rate of seven a day, permitted him to live in New Orleans, Cuba, Europe, Philadelphia. About 1918 he sold a story to Adventure and at once went home to become a novelist, which he speedily and notably did with Birthright, Fombombo, Red Sand. He is a sociologist only by indirection, an artist by accident. He is humorous. He dislikes work. Sound physically, he writes in an invalid's chair, between frequent naps...