U.S.A. Volume 2 Number 9 [antikvár]

I'll iil Hummt Nature and Conduct, Art as Experience, Liberalism and Social Action, and Logic: The Theory of Inquiry. JOHN p. MARQUAND, novelist, recently returned from the Pacific as war correspondent for Harper's magazine. Creator of the popular mystery character, "Mr. Meto," and a prolific short story writer, he is best known for his satiric portraits of provincial upper-class New England. Among his novels of this type are The Late George Ap-ley, which won the Pulitzer prize for 1938, Wickford Point, and H. M. Pul-hatn, Esquire. JACK BECHDOLT, former newspaperman on the Kansas City Star and Seattle Post-Intelligencer has been writing books for children for thirty years. IRWIN SHAW, playwright and author, entered the U. S. Army in 1942. He is probably best known for his play Btiry the Dead, one of the most powerful indictments against war ever written, frequendy produced by little theater groups throughout the United States. He is author of the plays Salute, Siege, The Gentle People, and the story collections Sailor Off the Bremen, and Welcome to the City. HOLGER cahill, art director and writer, was head of the U. S. government's Works Progress Administration art program from 1935 to 1943, also directing the Contemporary American Art Exhibition at the New York World's Fair of 1939. Previously, he had been director of exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. An authority on modern and folk art in the U. S., he is author of Geo. O. "Pop" Hart, Max Weber, Art in America, and American Folk Art. He is now working on a novel. otto d. tolischus, foreign correspondent, was a member of the Berlin bureau of the New York Times from 1933 to 1940, and Tokyo correspondent for the New York Times and the London Times in 1941. Mr. Tolischus was awarded the Pulitzer prize in 1939 for the year's best foreign news coverage. Interned in Japan for 3 months after Pearl Harbor, he was returned to the U. S. in 1942 under an exchange agreement. He is author of They Wanted War, Tokyo Record, and Through Japanese Eyes, some excerpts of which appear in this issue. betty fible martin is an American newspaperwoman whose articles appear in New York newspapers. rockwell kent, illustrator of this issue, is one of America's leading artists. A progressive, he bows to no academy. His remarkably versatile talents have won him the label of "Multiple" Kent. Painter, lithographer, and illustrator, he has also distinguished himself in the fields of music, writing, dairy farming, and exploration. Some of his most- notable painting has been done in Greenland, Tierra del Fuego, and other remote parts of the world. Notes on karl Shapiro, claude g. bowers, and sherwood anderson appear with their work, on pages 22, 71, and 84 respectively, of this issue.