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John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for The Late George Apley in 1938. [1] One of his abiding themes was the confining nature of life in America ...
The Late George Apley. The Late George Apley is a 1937 novel by John Phillips Marquand. It is a satire of Boston's upper class in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The title character is a Harvard University -educated WASP living on Beacon Hill in downtown Boston. The book is an epistolary novel, made up mostly of letters to and from the ...
Wickford Point: John P. Marquand: April 10: All This and Heaven Too: Rachel Field April 17 April 24: Wickford Point: John P. Marquand May 1: The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck: May 8 May 15 May 22 May 29 June 5 June 12 June 19 June 26 July 3 July 10 July 17 July 24 July 31 August 7 August 14 August 21 August 28 September 4 September 11 ...
281. Your Turn, Mr. Moto (originally published under the title No Hero and later as Mr. Moto Takes a Hand) is a 1935 spy novel by John P. Marquand and the debut novel in the Mr. Moto series. [1] The story was first serialized in the Saturday Evening Post. The New York Times said Marquand tells his story "superlatively well."
"Wickford Point" Adapted from the novel by John P. Marquand Cast: Orson Welles (Jim Calder); with Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Everett Sloane, Paul Stewart, Carl Frank, others Interview with John P. Marquand [1]: 352 [11]: 55 [12] [26] May 12, 1939 "Our Town" Adapted from the play by Thornton Wilder
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field; Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier; Wickford Point by John P. Marquand; Escape by Ethel Vance; Disputed Passage by Lloyd C. Douglas; The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings; The Tree of Liberty by Elizabeth Page; The Nazarene by Sholem Asch; Kitty Foyle by Christopher ...
Mr. Moto's Last Warning is the only Peter Lorre Moto film in the public domain.It is available at the Internet Archive. [4]The film was announced in April 1938. [5] [6] The title was then changed to Mr. Moto in Egypt before it eventually became Mr Moto's Last Warning.
William Lloyd Warner was born in Redlands, California, into the family of William Taylor and Clara Belle Carter, middle-class farmers. Warner attended San Bernardino High School, after which he joined the army in 1917. He contracted tuberculosis in 1918 and was released from the service. In 1918, he married Billy Overfield, but the marriage ...