It was the age of the foreign correspondent, and the names of their friends are now history – such people as John Gunther, Bill Shirer, H.R. Knickerbocker, and the author of this book, Jimmy Sheean. They were exciting people in an exciting place in an exciting time.
They were at the height of success when they met. She was Dorothy Thompson, beautiful, brilliant correspondent for the Curtis Publishing Company in Europe. He was Sinclair Lewis, already world famous for his portrait of an american town, MAIN STREET. Each had been previously married. It was love at first sight, with an immediate proposal of marriage when they met at a dinner party in Berlin in 1927.
They were married at a fashionable wedding in London, returned to New York as America’s most famous literary couple. Money poured in from his novels as Main Street had been followed by the even greater successes of Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth, and the others. The 30’s saw her emerge as a prophetess, warning her countrymen of the dangerous rise of Hitler and his Third Reich.
This is the Private life of two public people – told in Diaries, letters, and a friend’s eye-witness account: from love in Berlin and marriage in London to divorce in Vermont.
Condition:
Book is in Good Condition for the Age. Includes Dust Jacket that has moderate wear. Has some small tears around corners and edges, including scuff marks. Book itself is good with light wear on the outside cover / corners / edges. Inside of book has a small bit of writing on inside cover page, otherwise the rest of the pages are clean and crisp without any markings.
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