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The Author was born 53 years ago in Portage, Wis., where she now lives. Her literary career began when she went into newspaper work after graduating from the University of Wisconsin. First she wrote for the Evening Wisconsin in Milwaukee, then she joined the staff of the New York World. In 1918 she published the first book that really revealed her importance as an artist, Birth. Her play, Miss Lulu Bett, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1922; most of Manhattan went to see it. Faint Perfume, in 1923, added to her bouquets from critics and her revenues from readers. Yellow Gentians and Blue epitomizes her theory of brevity as the soul of art.
*GENTLEMAN JOHNNY BURGOYNE—F. J. Hudleston—Bobbs Merrill ($5).
*ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY—John A. Steuart—Little, Brown ($8.00).