March, William - William T. Going (essay date 1977)
William T. Going (essay date 1977)
SOURCE: “William March: Regional Perspective and Beyond,” in Papers on Language and Literature, Vol. 13, No. 4, Fall, 1977, pp. 430-43.
[In the following essay, Going reviews March's published work and suggests directions for March scholarship.]
William March (1893-1954) has been praised as “the most underrated of all contemporary writers of fiction” and “one of the finest technicians writing the short story in English.”1 Between 1929 and 1954 he published six novels—including the memorable Company K and the popular The Bad Seed—and some seventy short stories; he also wrote over one hundred fables, amassed a personal fortune as vice president of Waterman Steamship Corporation, and assembled one of the finest private collections of modern French paintings in the United States.2 Often compared by contemporary critics to his fellow Southerner, William...
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