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The American Writer, I
Aldridge, John W. | October 16, 1954 issue

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Of the best writers now in middle age and still capable of serious work, only a very few have been able to develop at all significantly those initial and, for the most part, narrow insights into modern life which secured their place in the literary world of twenty years ago. The one or two writers like William Faulkner and Ernest Miller Hemingway whose later careers have been something more than a falling off or merely a repetition of earlier promise are chronically under siege by hordes of critics bent on sacking their establishments, picking over their bones, and raising around their works sepulchers of exegesis and bibliography.

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