Caldwell, Taylor - Caldwell, Taylor 1900–

Caldwell, Taylor 1900–

A British-born American novelist, Miss Caldwell has written Dear and Glorious Physician and Dialogues with the Devil. More recently, she has published The Search for a Soul, an examination of reincarnation in terms of her personal experience. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed.)

It has been suggested by the author that her novels are too clean for TV or motion pictures. Maybe [Testimony of Two Men] since it is a bit spicey with the language of medicine and the brusque brutality of the hero—might add that filip which the camera needs for our mid-day audiences and viewers….

I am sure that my feelings and my reading experience of these many years of reviewing novels bid me say that this novel is not true to life. The long speeches of various actors within it decrying income taxes, socialization, the liberal views of Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and a host of...

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