THIS ISSUE:
WYLIE SYPHER, of the English department at Simmons College, is
the author of a book on slavery in the 18th century.... PAuL VALERY,
whose criticism and poetry has been translated into many languages,
is presumed to be somewhere in Nazi-occupied France.... IsAAC
RosENFELD is a young Chicago writer who is now on the editorial
staff of
The New Republic.
...
ERNEST NAGEL
is
in the department
of philosophy at Columbia University.... W. C. WILLIAMS, the
well-known poet and novelist, practices medicine at Rutherford,
N.
J .
. . . KARL SHAPIRO will publish a new volume of poetry early
in
1944.
He is in the Medical Corps of the U. S. Army and at present sta–
tioned somewhere in the Pacific.... RICHARD V. CHASE, of the
English department at Columbia University, was among the contribu–
tors to "The New Failure of Nerve" series.... RoBERT PENN
WARREN, whose second novel,
At Heaven's Gate,
was published in
the summer of
1943,
is now teaching at the University of Minnesota.
. . . F.
0.
MATTHIESSEN, professor of English at Harvard, is the
author of
American Renaissance
and other critical works.... }AMES
JoHNSON SwEENEY, widdy known as an art critic, will shortly publish
a study ofT. S. Eliot's
4 Quartets.
...
RoBERT MoTHERWELL is a
young painter from the West Coast now living in New York City. . . .
RANDALL JARRELL, author of
Blood for a Stranger,
is now serving in
the air force of the U. S. Army. ... HAROLD RosENBERG, a frequent
contributor to PARTISAN REVIEW, has recently published a volume of
verse entitled
Trance Above the Streets.
...
}AMES BuRNHAM is the
author of
The Managerial Revolution
aoo
The Machiavellians .
...
GEORGE ORWELL
is
the London correspondent of PARTISAN REVIEW.
. . . }EAN STAFFORD is a young writer whose first novel
will
shortly be
brought out by Harcourt, Brace.... EDMUND WILSON, who now
writes the book-page for the
New
r
orker,
is at work on a study of the
Russian classics.... F. W. DuPEE, formerly on the editorial staff of
PARTISAN REVIEW, is in the English department at Columbia Uni–
versity.... REBECCA PITTS, a young writer from Indianapolis, has
published critical work in many periodicals.
