John P. Marquand
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John Phillips Marquand was an American writer. Originally best known for his Mr. Moto spy stories, he achieved popular success and critical respect for his satirical novels, winning a Pulitzer Prize for The Late George Apley in 1938. One of his abiding themes was the confining nature of life in America's upper class and among those who aspired to join it. Marquand treated those whose lives were bound by these unwritten codes with a characteristic mix of respect and satire. - Wikipedia
Books
Wickford Point
Family chronicle depicting life on an old homestead somewhere north of Boston.
Point of no return
Novel in the classic Marquand manner. Banking, New York, Boston, small town New England. If you like Marquand, it's good reading.
Sincerely, Willis Wayde
"You've got to keep on moving and growing" Willis observed to his, wife. "That's the American way . . ." As with many of Marquand's figures, Willis Wayde is a generic portrait, the portrait of a class more than an individual.
Life at Happy Knoll
Stories in letter form which originally appeared in Sports illustrated magazine.
Last Laugh, Mr. Moto
A lonely island in the Caribbean is the scene of a search by Japanese and Americans for an invaluable airplane secret.
Thirty years
A collection of papers and short stories.
Melville Goodwin, U.S.A.
The gradual disclosure of the true character of a newsworthy American general in Berlin.