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Encyclopedia entry: Marquand, J(ohn) P(hillips)
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Marquand, J[ohn] P[hillips]
(1893–1960),Massachusetts author, born in Wilmington, Del., whose literary career began with popular romances, including
The Unspeakable Gentleman
(1922),
The Black Cargo
(1925),
Warning Hill
(1930), and
Ming Yellow
(1935), and detective stories about Mr. Moto, a Japanese sleuth. His more serious comedies of manners, often observing the struggle between inherited conformity and personal desire, include
The Late George Apley
(1937, Pulitzer Prize), a supposed memoir of Boston Brahmin life;
Wickford Point
(1939), a similar satire of a New England family;
H. M. Pulham, Esquire
(1941), about a New Englander 25 years out of college;
So Little Time
(1943), about ...