Graves and Riding were touchy as friends, between their sense of literary mission (they saw Graves's biography of T. E. Lawrence
as a somewhat demeaning potboiler, not part of his real work at all) and...
It was greeted with admiring letters from readers including Kay Boyle
, and was chosen for inclusion in the O. Henry Prize Stories of 1942, where it appeared together with a story by CMC
politics
Nancy Cunard
Destined by birth and her mother's lifestyle for the life of a debutante, patron of the arts, and society hostess, NC
began at an early age to carve out a quite different role. Early in...