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
Philadelphia society, according to Joseph Hergesheimer who likes parties and lives near there, is as dull as what the society editors write about it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Joseph Hergesheimer has expressed a theory to the effect that great art is always provincial, never cosmopolitan; that only provincial art is universal in its appeal.
From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl
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