Johan Bojer (Cyclopedia of World Authors, Fourth Revised Edition)
Johan Bojer (BOY-ur) enjoyed great popularity in the United States during the 1920’s. John Galsworthy, Rabrindranath Tagore, Joseph Hergesheimer, and James Branch Cabell all praised his fiction. His reputation in the United States began with the translation of The Great Hunger in 1918, and by 1931 four more of his novels had been translated into English. The change in public taste brought about by the Depression made his optimistic realism seem anachronistic amid the work of James Farrell, John Dos Passos, and John Steinbeck, but his hopefulness was not superficially grounded....
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