Margaret Halsey (1910–1997)
Autore di With Malice Toward Some
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1910-02-13
- Data di morte
- 1997-02-04
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Yonkers, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- White Plains, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Yonkers, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Skidmore College
Teacher's College, Columbia University - Attività lavorative
- author
- Organizzazioni
- Simon & Schuster
- Breve biografia
- Margaret Halsey was born in Yonkers, New York, and attended Skidmore College. In 1933, she was hired by famed editor and writer Max Eastman as his secretary, and then with his help got a job at Simon & Schuster.
In 1935, she married Henry Simon, an assistant professor at Columbia University and vice-president of the company. The couple moved to Devon, England for her husband's teaching exchange program. Her humorous letters home to American relatives and friends recounting what she saw as the eccentricities of the English people, their food, and the drudgery in their lives, caught the attention of her brother-in-law, publisher Richard L. Simon. He commissioned her to write what became the book With Malice Toward Some (1938). It became a bestseller and won the National Book Award. Critics considered her a witty writer and compared her favorably to Dorothy Parker and H. L. Mencken. She went on to write several other books, including two inspired by her experiences volunteering as a hostess at the racially-integrated Stage Door Canteen in Times Square, New York during World War II; This Demi-Paradise: A Westchester Diary (1960); The Pseudo-Ethic: A Speculation on American Politics and Morals (1963); and No Laughing Matter: The Autobiography of a WASP (1977), which included her struggles with alcoholism and agoraphobia.
Margaret and her first husband divorced in 1944. A later marriage to Milton R. Stern ended in divorce in 1969.
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- Voto
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There are nods to rationing and housing shortages of the era, but prejudice is center stage for most of the story, and it is sad how little has changed in that regard in the past eighty years. Halsey is a decent writer, although I found her unrelenting attempts to be constantly witty and clever off-putting and even annoying.
Long out of print, but a quick read and still a rather interesting artifact of the wartime era.
- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER… (altro)