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
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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...