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Divorced. Pulitzer Prizewinning Novelist John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), 40; by Carol Henning Steinbeck, 38; after an eleven-month separation; in Salinas, Calif. She won a settlement of $220,000 and the Steinbeck home at Pacific Grove, Calif...
...dozen years ago Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings decided that she would never make a writer, quit her job on a Rochester, N.Y. newspaper, bought an orange grove at Cross Creek in Florida. There she wrote South Moon Under and The Yearling, a book that will be read, at least as a juvenile classic, when most of the books of the last 20 years are forgotten...
Martha. It was black Martha Mickens who first welcomed Author Rawlings to Cross Creek. "She came walking toward me in the grove one bright sunny December day. . . . She walked like a very young woman and walks so to this day. She is getting on to seventy. . . . She was dressed neatly in calico with a handkerchief bound around her head, bandana fashion. She was a rich smooth brown. . . . She said: 'I come to pay my respecks. I be's Martha. Martha Mickens. I wants to welcome you. Me and my man, Old Will, was the first hands on this...
...Geechee. Then there was 'Geechee. Author Rawlings was alone at the grove, had had lots of trouble getting help. 'Geechee arrived, unasked-for. She was the ugliest Negro woman Author Rawlings had ever seen. She was the dusty black of teakwood and looked capable of murder. "I hear tell you want a girl," she said fiercely. "You take me." Author Rawlings explained that the girl was too old to learn her ways. Said 'Geechee: "If I don't do to suit you, you can cut my throat." At dawn 'Geechee began to scrub down...
...thing. This other nigger was layin' for him. He went at Leroy and he bopped him one and Leroy be's strong and he made a pass at him and it done killed this nigger." Author Rawlings got Leroy out, gave him a job at the grove. Soon his manner was so threatening that a friend, overhearing him talk, ran out to get a revolver. Author Rawlings telephoned the jail. Said the superintendent: "We have absolutely no room for him. Send him away at once...