Books: Ten Dullest Authors Lawrence Number One

Ten Dullest Authors Lawrence Number One —James Tied for Second

Epilogue to the recent syndicated siege of " Books That Have Helped Me Most," "Books to Take On a Desert Island," and their like, eleven well known writers and critics, questioned by Vanity Fair, " Who are, to your mind, the ten dullest authors "I " make frank confession of their pet literary abominations. The questionees are as diverse as possible —George Jean Nathan, Christopher Morley, Edna Ferber, James Branch Cabell, Hugh Walpole are five of the number — and they certainly agitate the...

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