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Wild Honey
A little more than a year ago the ATLANTIC published “Man Overboard,” James Ballard’s first short story. Mr. Ballard studied at St. Johns College in Annapolis, served with the Strategic Air Command, and is now working for VISTA, fourteen miles up a dirt road in western Washington.
The Britches Thief
Jesse Hill Ford is a Tennessean in whom the ATLANTIC takes special pride. We published his first short stories, his first novel, MOUNTAINS OF GILEAD,and his first major work, THE LIBERATION OF LORD BYRON JONES,a novel of the South today which was the midsummer selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
Allantry
The ATLANTIChas found a fresh, and original talent in Ralph Maloney, whose previous stories “Benny” and “Harry W. A. Davis, Jr.” have appeared in its pages over the past year or so. A native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Mr. Maloney served in the Merchant Marine and in the Army and did a six-year stint on Madison Avenue before he quit to write.
God and the Tower and the Boy
A playwright and critic now in his early thirties, Jeremy Kingston was born in London and was a clerk at a firm making marmalade, at a firm making asbestos cement, and in a factory making shavers. Now he devotes his time to the writing of plays and stories.
On the Edge of Arcadia
In July, 1961, the ATLANTICintroduced to its readers a new young writer, Tom Cole, whose story “Familiar Usage in Leningrad" subsequently won the Atlantic “First” prize and an O. Henry award. The following story will appear in his book AN END TO CHIVALRY, to be published next month by AtlanticLittle, Brown.
The Messenger
Jesse Hill Ford is a Tennessean in whom the ATLANTIC takes special pride. We published his first short stories, his first novel , MOUNTAINS OF GILEAD, and we are about to publish his first major work . THE LIBERATION OF LORD BYRON JONES, a novel of the South today and the midsummer selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
If One Green Bottle ..
The mother of two daughters, Audrey Callahan Thomas is married to a sculptor who is teaching art at the Kwame Nkrumah University in Ghana. A graduate of Smith, who took her M.A. at the University of British Columbia, she is now writing her Ph.D. thesis (on BEOWULF) and, one hopes, more stories.
Harry W. A. Davis, Jr
A native of Cambridge. Massachusetts, who served in the Merchant Marine and in the Army. Ralph Maloney did a six-year stint on Madison Avenue before he quit to write. He then went into the saloon business as bartender. manager, and front man. ATLANTIC readers who remember his first saloon story, “Benny,” which appeared last August, will enjoy this one.
Wood
A graduate of Stanford, Wallace While began his writing as a reporter on the Salt Lake TRIBUNEin 1952. Seven years later he joined the staff of the NEW YORKER and has been there ever since.