Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter: Upton Sinclair, Pasadena, California, to Melville Kress, Neville Island, Pennsylvania, 28 August 1940
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: MSN/MN 3014-22
Scope and Contents
Sinclair relays that Benjamin Huebsch has read Kress's manuscript, and finds it wanting. "His general impression seemed to be that your opinions were intruded into the narrative," Sinclair writes. "He thought the material was interesting, but your point of view was narrow." Sinclair also addresses Kress's inquiry about writing a biography of him. He discourages Kress from speaking to [Irving] Stone, [William] Woodward or Lewis Browne as they have all "talked about writing a biography of me."...
Dates:
28 August 1940