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The Two Worlds of William March William March (Courtesy of the William S. Hoole Special Col lections Library of the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library, The Uni versity of Alabama) The Two Worlds of William M a r c h Roy S. Simmonds THEUB&ARY CfALAMMA ClASSICS Copyright © 1984 by Roy S. Simmonds The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 Manufactured in the United States of America Qyotations from published and unpublished material by William March are reprinted with permission of Harold Ober Associates on behalf of the copyright holders, the Trustees of the William E. Campbell (March) Trust U/W, Merchants National Bank of Mobile, Mobile, Alabama. Material from the Archives of Harold Ober Associates, held at Princeton University, is published with permission of Princeton University Library. The author is grateful to the following publishers, authors, and literary agents for permission to reprint copyrighted material: Albert Halper, for Good-bye, Union Square, by Albert Halper. Copyright © 1970 by Albert Halper. Reprinted by permission. The Paris Review, for "The Art of Fiction: LXXIII," by John Gardner. Copyright © 1979 by The Paris Review Inc. Reprinted by permission. Laurence Pollinger, Ltd., Simon & Schuster, Inc., and Lester & Orphen Dennys, Ltd., for Ways ofE scape, by Graham Greene. Copyright © 1980 by Graham Greene. Reprinted by permiuion. The Pushcart Press, for The Little Magazine in America: A Modern Documentary History, edited by Elliot Anderson and Mary Kinzie. Copyright © 1978 by Triquar terly. Reprinted by permission. Saturday Review, for "Poor Pilgrim, Poor Stranger," by Robert Tallant. Copyright © 1954 by Saturday Review. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Simmonds, Roy S. The two worlds of William March. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. March, William. 1893-1954.2. Novelists, American-20th century-Biography. 1. Title. PS3505.A53157Z85 1983 813'.52 [B] 83-1100 ISBN 978-0-8173-0167-5 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8173-5687-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8173-8587-3 (electronic) This book is dedicated to my good and valued friends William T. Going, Preston C. Beyer, and the late James Clinton Bolton. Without their immense assistance, continued encouragement, and wise counseling, this book would never have been written. ... everybody must seem crazy if you see deep enough into their minds. The Looking-Glass When I was younger, and lived in a gentler world, I occasionally wondered at the reason for witches, and for their repudiation of the human heritage. In those far-away, innocent days, I thought of them as silly, demented creatures, but as I grow older, I am not so sure, for sometimes it seems most pleasant to be able to mount a broomstick and ride off to an imaginary realm behind the clouds. No matter what that land of witches is like, it can hardly be crueler or more unbelievable than our own world-the frightening world in which we are asked to live out our days to their end. "Warlock" ... man ... is a frail, lost creature, too weak to walk unaided. "This Heavy Load" Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xviii 1 Early Years 1 2 Service in the U. S. Marines 12 3 Beginnings of Two Careers 21 4 The Two Worlds Established 37 5 Company K and Hitler's Germany 68 6 Come in at the Door and Escape to London 84 7 The Little Wife and Other Stories and Analysis with Glover 103 8 The Tallons and Resignation from Waterman 121 9 Some Like Them Short and Life as a Full-Time Author 145 10 The Looking-Glass and Wartime New York 166 11 Trial Balance and the Edge of the Abyss 199 12 The Move to New Orleans 221 13 October Island and New Roots Established 249 14 The Bad Seed and Posthumous Success 291 Afterword 316 Notes 326 Selected Bibliography 349 Index 352

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