Waters, Frank - Vernon Young (essay date Autumn 1949)
Vernon Young (essay date Autumn 1949)
SOURCE: "Frank Waters: Problems of the Regional Imperative," in The New Mexico Quarterly Review, Vol. XIX, No. 3, Autumn, 1949, pp. 353-72.
[An English-born American best remembered as a film critic, Young contributed reviews to periodicals such as Film Quarterly, The Hudson Review, The New York Review of Books, American Scholar, The Kenyon Review, and The New York Times. In the essay below, he judges The Colorado Waters's most successful book to date and surveys the strengths and weaknesses of Waters's other writings.]
If the general reader has encountered The Colorado, by Frank Waters, published by Rinehart and Company in 1946 as one in their Rivers of America series, he may have been moved to explore the further works of a Southwestern writer who, in this volume at least, brought to regional history an excellence rarely attained in this genre. Further exploration will...
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