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A Fairy Tale of New York
A New Yorker who studied at Trinity College, Dublin, J. P. DONLEAVYis the author of THE GINGER MAN, a first novel which attracted considerable attention here and in England. The play which was dramatized by the author from his book was produced in London and Dublin and in both places drew endorsements and equally strong condemnations. The narrative which follows is drawn from the opening chapters of Mr. Donleavy’s new novel.
Holiday
In FLOWERING JUDAS,her first and memorable collection of short stories, and in PALE HORSE, PALE RIDER, KATHERINE ANNE PORTERevoked some beautiful impressions of the Southwest, a region which she knew as a girl and which is very dear to her. To it she returns in this new and exceptional narrative.
At the Stelling
The author of three novels, JOHN HEARNE grew up and was educated in Jamaica, and in his writings he describes with dramatic force the people and customs of the islands of the Caribbean.He is now living in London and working on a new novel. His last book, THE EYE OF THE STORM,was published by Atlantic-Little, Brown.
Safe at Last
JESSE HILL FORDis an ATLANTICdiscovery who graduated from Vanderbilt University and studied writing under Andrew Lytle at the University of Florida. Three of his short stories have appeared in our pages, and in 1959 he was awarded an Atlantic Grant to assist him with his novel, which has now been completed. His first play, THE CONVERSION OF BUSTER DRUMWRIGHT,was produced by CBS Television Workshop last winter.
The Man Below
New Orleans is home to SHIRLEY ANN GRAU; her two grandmothers were of mixed French and Spanish blood; and to this colorful background she naturally returns for the source material for her novels and short stories. Alfred A. Knopf published her first book, THE BLACK PRINCE, in 1955 when she was just twentyjive years old, and since then editors and readers hare regarded her as a writer to watch. The best of her work has been reprinted in the O. Henry and Martha Foley collections. She has just fin ished a new novel.
Requiem for Bibul
“I live and write by the faith that the world is full of magnificence which only compassion and imagination can discover and celebrate, says JACK LUDWIG.Mr. Ludwig, who has been writing seriously for the past eight years, is a Canadian by birth and graduated from the University of Manitoba. He now teaches at the University of Minnesota and coedits a new magazine of creative writing,THE NOBLE SAVAGE.
This Morning, This Evening, So Soon
A short story
The Legacy of Leontis
HARRY MARK PETRAKISbroke into print in theATLANTICwith his first story, “Pericles on 34th Street,” which won a Benjamin Franklin Magazine Citation and an Atlantic ”First” Award for 1957. His novel,LION AT MY HEART,a view of Greek — American life published last year, was taken for television production onPLAYHOUSE 90.
A Summer on the Don
A retired banker ,soldier, singer, and diplomat, PAUL HYDE BONNER came to his writing career when he ivas in his late fifties with his first novel, SPQR (1952). His two collections of stories, THE GLORIOUS MORNINGS and AGED IN THE WOOD,display his characteristic zest for fishing, hunting, and the wonders of life outdoors.
Border Incident
Author and playwright, still in his thirties, JOHN D. STEWART derates his leisure time to writing and his working days to the British civil service. For the past nine years he has been stationed at Gibraltar, where he wrote his memorable article “ Vulture Country,” published in the ATLANTIC last year. But this lighthearted story of Irish shenan igans belongs to a mistier clime.