Melville Goodwin, USA

As is generally known, John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was a 20th-century American novelist. He achieved popular success and critical respect, winning a Pulitzer Prize for The Late George Apley in 1938, and creating the Mr. Moto spy series. One of his abiding themes was the confining nature of life in America's upper class and among those who aspired to join it.
The Late George Apley (1937), a satire of Boston's upper class, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1938.

Before gaining acclaim for his serious novels, Marquand achieved great popular and commercial success with a series of formulaic spy novels about the fictional Mr. Moto.

The series inspired eight films, starring Peter Lorre, which are only show more very loosely based on the novels.

Marquand's 1951 novel, Melville Goodwin, USA, was unrecognizable in the 1958 motion picture A Top-Secret Affair. The book was a satire about publicists trying to cover up a general's adultery, but movie writers transformed the general into a bachelor. According to Marquand's biographers, he took these Hollywood liberties in stride.

Marquand died in 1960. show less

525. Melville Goodwin, USA, by John P. Marquand (read 2 Nov 1957) I appreciated this book, which I read right after reading the author's The Late George Apley and while my wife was in the hospital after giving birth to our daughter Sandy.

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