For more than thirty years she was a society editor at the Vincennes Sun-Commercial newspaper before switching careers to become a public relations director at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes. She wrote 56 of them in all, some under the pseudonyms Jennifer Blair, John Cleveland, Jane Scott and Elizabeth Wesley. Indiana native and lifelong resident Elizabeth Adeline McElfresh (1918- 2015) specialized in medical novels. Kane left this world too soon at only 56-years-old, but the mark he left on the world of P.I. Before television he worked in radio writing scripts for The Shadow, Gang Busters, Call the Police and Nick Carter, Master Detective. That prospect didn't quite work out but it did lead to him writing scripts for other TV shows like The Investigators, Mike Hammer and Special Agent 7. Frank Kane (1912- 1968) wrote 29 novels featuring his private investigator Johnny Liddell, and they proved so popular that even CBS approached him about adapting his character into a TV series.
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In this context, Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead comes not just as a breath of fresh air, but as a ray of light, quietly penetrating to the heart of mysteries regarding joy and love, life and death. Authors able to give the lie to Tolstoy by rendering joy as a complex substance are few and far between: think Ron Carlson, Laurie Colwin, Ellen Gilchrist, Richard Russo. Yet too often, contemporary literature ignores this. Asked about our defining or most enlightening moments, most of us are as likely to recount happy memories as we are moments of despair. We need look no further than our own lives to recognize the problem we’ll encounter if we preoccupy ourselves with the Tolstoyan “unhappy family” at the expense of the happy ones. It often feels as if the contemporary literary scene has internalized Anna Karenina’s dictum on the nature of happiness-that it is not idiosyncratic, with the implication that it is not worth the kind of careful attention that literature applies to its subjects. These definitions lead me to the following questions regarding The Illustrated Screwtape Letters. Under the word, illustration, Webster’s third definition most pertains to our subject at hand: “Visual matter for clarifying or decorating a text.” And illustrare is related to the Latin word, lustrum, which means purification. According to Webster the English word, illustrate, comes from the Latin illustrare which means to make bright. So I thought I would start by looking up the meaning of the word illustrated. In fact, Lewis spent one whole book doing this: Studies in Words. Lewis often noted the importance of defining the meaning of words we think we understand. And to do that I think I shall start where Lewis would-by defining terms. Therefore I shall confine myself to reviewing the illustrations. Now, where to start in such a review? First of all, since The Screwtape Letters has been in print for sixty-seven years and is a classic of Christian literature and satire I see no need to review the text of one of C. This was a chance to get a free Lewis book. What was there to hesitate over? I love Lewis. When asked to write this review of The Illustrated Screwtape Letters I jumped at the chance. He is frequently compared by modern reviewers to William Faulkner. Literary critic Harold Bloom named him one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. His earlier Blood Meridian (1985) was among Time Magazine's poll of 100 best English-language books published between 19, and he placed joint runner-up for a similar title in a poll taken in 2006 by The New York Times of the best American fiction published in the last 25 years. 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