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*OTHER BOOKS BY*
*DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS*
Mr. Phillips does not follow the usual fashion in novels. He has a
fashion of his own. His readers are now numbered by the scores of
thousands. In at least one of our cities, at the public library where
they take ten copies of each of Mr. Phillips's new books, there is
usually a waiting-list _five to seven months_ long for a chance at it,
which shows one of two things, or perhaps both: to how much trouble some
people will go to save the trifling expenditure of the price of a book,
or how extremely popular Mr. Phillips is--so popular that he has a
multitude of eager readers among those who cannot afford to buy books.
It is no small triumph to win all kinds of readers, as Mr. Phillips has.
The reason he has achieved it is because he writes about life as we live
it ourselves, in our hearts and in our homes and in our dealings with
each other--the familiar yet startling and always fascinating truth
about life.
Mr. Phillips is an Indiana man in the early forties. He graduated from
De Pauw University and then from Princeton. He has had a career giving
him unusual opportunities to observe the life of all kinds of people,
high and low, rich and poor, town and country, here and abroad. As he
watched the struggle of humanity to live--the concealment and
subterfuge, the extraordinary mixture of good and bad in everyone--all
the conflict in the jungle which we call life impressed itself on him,
and he gradually found that fiction--the novel--was presenting to him
the best medium for him to express to everyone what he had found in his
work so far. The result has been that in the last few years Mr.
Phillips has gathered together an audience of thousands, who watch each
book as it appears. It is interesting to see what he has produced.