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...GREAT MEADOW-Elizabeth Madox Roberts-Viking...
...word Kentucky connotes thoroughbred horses, Bourbon whiskey, hotheaded, white-headed Southern colonels drinking mint juleps before breakfast. In 1774 Kentucky meant a promised land of fabulous fertility, beyond almost impassable mountains, 500 miles from the outposts of civilization. Author Elizabeth Madox Roberts lifts the curtain from 150 years, shows you Kentucky as it was then...
...Author. Some of Author Elizabeth Madox Roberts' ancestors came from Virginia over "Boone's Trace," settled in Kentucky in 1803. There she lives, near Springfield, writes her books. Tall, light-haired, lissome, she is unmarried; her publishers do not know how old she is. Other books: Under the Tree (poetry), The Time of Man, My Heart and My Flesh, Jingling in the Wind...
...literary ferment" by publishing samples of the more advanced American literature, which otherwise readers of the Red Book might never know existed. The scheme took. The American Caravan has become an annual fixture. Among its contributors have been: Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Scott, Morley Callaghan, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Paul Green. Authors Evelyn Scott and Paul Green are again represented in the present edition...
...only agent for bringing to Cambridge lecturers of national and often international reputations, the Union has rendered an important service in recent years. In the past its list of speakers has included such interesting personalities as Christopher Morley, Count Felixvon Luckner, Alexander Woollcott, Ford Madox Ford, and the arctic explorer Stefansson...