W. J. Strachan

NC established important relationships in Paris: with Dadaist Tristan Tzara , Louis Aragon , American writers Janet Flanner and Solita Solano , and photographer Man Ray . During the second world war she became...

Other friendships made now or later included many with distinguished women, like Ivy Compton-Burnett (whom she found kinder to me than she apparently was to most other people), and Stevie Smith , whom...

The novel was nominated for the 1926 Prix Femina, and was the first selection of the American Book-of-the-Month Club , an organisation newly formed that year. It became popular with the public...

In August 1950 CM was on holiday in Brittany with a writer friend, Inez Holden , working all morning and again from five till eight on their novels.She told Walter Strachan : I am determined...