Hergesheimer
Americannoun
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During the 1920s her two favorite novelists were Joseph Hergesheimer and Carl Van Vechten.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2016
Claridge rather cruelly dismisses Hergesheimer as just a popular society novelist, though he was more than that, as readers of his novella “Wild Oranges ” know.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2016
Sheridan's famed gallop, says Author Hergesheimer, has been grossly exaggerated: actually he went very slowly, stopping to listen, probably walked his horse a good part of the way.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Author Hergesheimer, somewhat socially-minded but far from panaceatic, tells his tales and lets it go at that.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"Blue Ice," by Joseph Hergesheimer, proclaims itself a study in technique, a thing of careful workmanship.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various
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