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There seems to be a lack of a large contingent of people in HN who are deeply into literary fiction. If you are into that kind of an interest, his name along wi
by billfruit 7y ago
There seems to be a lack of a large contingent of people in HN who are deeply into literary fiction. If you are into that kind of an interest, his name along with the likes of Arnold Bennett, Theodore Dressier, William Howard Dean, Sinclair Lewis, Rebecca West, Thomas Berger, Wallace Stegner, John Galsworthy, etc among many others would have instant recognition.
Waugh specially was an established novelist before world war 2. He participated in various theaters in Europe, and later wrote about them. He may have been one of the foremost chroniclers of the British Experience in WW2. I doubt Americans have someone of similar achievement to compare. Herman Wouk isn't of the same level as Waugh.
Of course there was even the episode of his name featuring in the 100 'Women' novelists of 20th century list of Time magazine.
- adventured 7y ago> Of course there was even the episode of his name featuring in the 100 'Women' novelists of 20th century list of Time magazine. For those curious, it was in a small 2016 article about college textbooks [1] ("These Are the 100 Most-Read Female Writers in College Classes"). Not some prominent 100 women novelists of the 20th century list that was their cover story. At the bottom of the page it has a correction notice. People like to say Time Magazine made the mistake, because it blows it out of proportion and sounds better. If you say that one writer - David Johnson - made a mistake, it entirely loses its punch. [1] https://time.com/4234719/college-textbooks-female-writers/ https://time.com/4234719/college-textbooks-female-writers/
- wutbrodo 7y ago> People like to say Time Magazine made the mistake, because it blows it out of proportion and sounds better. If you say that one writer - David Johnson - made a mistake, it entirely loses its punch. Publications have editors on staff to check what they publish, before they print and distribute millions of copies of every sentence in the issue. There's a longstanding and ubiquitous norm that publications are absolutely responsible for what they publish, and for good reason. You may as well say that Facebook isn't responsible for its norm violation du jour; just the PM who thought of it and the couple engineers that implemented it. (which isn't to say that this is anything more than mildly amusing, but claiming that attributing the error to Time instead of one of its writers is "blowing it out of proportion" couldn't be more wrong)
- lainga 7y agoI should hope it's a team effort. Either Johnson had no oversight or he was not solely responsible. That's like GitHub saying "the outage has been fixed. but it wasn't us! It was ${joe beef @ github}"
- jsmith99 7y agoIt helped that his wife was also named Evelyn, although the female version is pronounced slightly differently.
- wraithKingPrime 7y agoThe male pronunciation is 'EVE-lin' versus the female 'ev-A-lin.'