Hergesheimer
Americannoun
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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
During the 1920s her two favorite novelists were Joseph Hergesheimer and Carl Van Vechten.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2016
Pennsylvania Dutchman Hergesheimer was born in Philadelphia in 1880. shocked his family by going artistic, entering the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts at 17.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Bavaria, where the bitter flavor of modern Berlin and musty Munich dissolved, Author Hergesheimer grew too nostalgic to be comfortable.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Wharton found the age of innocence in the 1870's; Mr. Hergesheimer discovers an age of no innocence in the 1920's.
From Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism by Canby, Henry Seidel
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