Announcing the publication of the
1964 winner of The Houghton Mifflin
Literary Fellowship Award
John
Stewart
Carter's
FULL FATHOM FIVE
First published in part in
The Kenyon Review
"More poetic and less cynical than O'Hara ... Less leisurely and
more pointillist than Proust, he is equally deft at displaying a charac–
ter which appears solid and consistent, and then, under stress of time
or emotion, changes into something new, unpredictable and bizarre."
- GILBERT HIGHET,
Book-of-the-Month Club News $4.95
The Houghton Mifflin
Literary Fellowship
Thirtieth Anniversary 1935-1965
The oldest publisher-sponsored award of jts kind has introduced
many of America's most distinguished authors, among them Dorothy
Baker, Robert Penn Warren, Elizabeth Bishop, Eugene Burdick,
Philip Roth.
The awards are designed to help authors complete literary projects
in fiction and non-fiction, but finished manuscripts are also eligible.
The awards are $5,000, $3,000 of which is to be considered an
advance against royalties. For complete information and application
forms, write to:
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, Publishers
2 Park Street, Boston,
Mass.
02107
