Clifton Fadiman

Their friends in New York were mostly, like themselves, Communists (as their friends in London had been).Clifton Fadiman , book critic on the New Yorker, became CS 's most vigorous promoter in the USA.

From her first discovery until this point in her career, CS was held in high esteem by the literary worlds of London (always excepting her damning reviews in the Times Literary Supplement) and New...

Edmund Wilson , who encouraged her to write the first story, thought the book marvelous . . . and recommended it to Vladimir Nabokov, whose own work Wilson championed when Nabokov came to the...