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EDWARD WEEKS

Madeleine L'Engle is a newcomer and I mention her first novel, The Small Rain, because in it she succeeds in creating the character of a young artist, one of the most difficult assignments in the whole range of writing. This is the young and refreshing story of a musician growing surely with self-dedication in the midst of Bohemian New York, a realm which can so easily be cheapened, sentimentalized, or exaggerated. Her novel is written with good taste and clear understanding, and while she has much to learn in the pointing up of conversation and in the natural cutback of introspection, the undeniable vitality of her writing is good to discover. (p. 125)

Edward Weeks, in The Atlantic Monthly (copyright © 1945 by The Atlantic Monthly Company, Boston, Mass.; reprinted with permission), June, 1945.

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1. Introduction
2. Mary Ross
3. Nina Brown Baker
4. Edward Weeks
5. Eunice Holsaert
6. Ellen Lewis Buell
7. Rose Feld
8. Trudie Osborne
9. Harrison Smith
10. Ruth Hill Viguers
11. Alice Dalgliesh
12. Ruth Hill Viguers
13. Carolyn M. Light
14. Alice Dalgliesh
15. Carolyn Horovitz
16. Elaine Moss
17. Jean C. Thomson
18. Paul Heins
19. GERALDINE E. LaROCQUE
20. GERALDINE E. LaROCQUE
21. John Conner
22. John W. Conner
23. Polly Longsworth
24. John W. Conner
25. MAY HILL ARBUTHNOT and ZENA SUTHERLAND
26. John Rowe Townsend
27. Robert Bell
28. Wayne Dodd
29. Barbara Elleman
30. Cynthia Benjamin
31. Craig Wallace Barrow
32. Rebecca J. Lukens
33. Jean F. Mercier
34. Karen M. Klockner
35. Copyright

1. Madeleine L'Engle