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The Tacopatli Passion Play
American novelist and short-story writer, MARTHA GELLHORN made her early reputation as a war correspondent. Last summer she and her husband, T. S. Matthews, spent considerable time in Mexico, and they will return to the United States early in 1959 to gather source material for a book about America. Her new novel dealing with the face of war is soon to be published.
The Game
A native of South Africa who is now living in London, DAN JACOBSON graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. At the age of twenty nine he has three novels to his credit, his most recent, THE PRICE OE DIAMONDS, having been published by Knopf this spring.
The River Rat
A graduate of the University of Missouri, HOWARD DAVISstudied political science under Harold Laski at the London School of Economics before the war, and returned to England as a major in the Eighth Air Force, He was director of Dave Garroway’s TODAY for two years and is note teaching for the advertising Jinn of N. W. Ayer in its Philadelphia headquarters and writing fiction on the side.
The Peach Boy
As an undergraduate and postgraduate at the University of Wyoming, ROBERT A. RORIPAUGH worked on his writing under the stimulating direction of the poel Joseph Lanyland. Drafted into the army in 1953, Mr. Roripaugh served a year in Japan, and his nostalgia for that country has taken him back there twice since.
The Son-in-Law
Born in Indiana twenty-four years ago, GLENN MEETER received his A.B. in English from Calvin College in Michigan in 1955 and on a Ford fellowship went to Vanderbilt University to take his master’s degree. He is now living in Lansing, Illinois, where he teaches English and devotes as much time as he can to his writing.
The Cream Puff Squash
A Kentuckian by birth, MARGARET COOPER GAY came to New York at the age of fifteen and laler moved to Connecticut, where she did much of her writing until her recent death. Her novel, HATCHET IN THE SKY, was published ill 1954.
Expresso Bongo
When EXPRESSO BONGO hit the stage of the Saville Theatre in London in late April, critics described it as “an English musical that can look any American one in the face and outstare it.”This satire on Tin Pan Alley is based on the following story by WOLF MANKOWITZ, author of A KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS, OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE, and THE MENDELMAN FIRE.
An Old Master
An Englishman with a family literary heritage, DAVID GARNETT had the opportunity of knowing in his youth the great writers of the twenties. He started his men work shortly after World War I, and in addition to his many novels he has edited the works of Henry James and T. E. Lawrence. His most recent book is ASPECTS OF LOVE.
The Dorymen
A native of Massachusetts, EDMUND GILLIGAN spent a good part of his boyhood near Gloucester, where he first became aware of the power of the sea and of the strength of the men whose lives are given to it. Since 1937 he has been writing poignant and poetic novels about the schooners that once plied the Grand Banks.
Second Circle
A graduate of the University of Southern California, JMAC,DONALD HARRIS is note teaching literature at the University of Utah. “Second Circle,”he says, “started with my annoyance with people who think scholars live in ivory towers. A knowledge of Provençal metrics is not incompatible with ability to fix an elevator.”