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Encyclopedia entry: Late George Apley, The
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Late George Apley, The,
novel by J. P.
Marquand
, published in 1937 and awarded a Pulitzer Prize. A dramatization by Marquand and George S.
Kaufman
was produced in 1944 and published in 1945.
Mr. Willing, contemporary and friend of the late George Apley, is requested by Apley's son John to describe his life in a book so that the conventional public eulogy may be amplified and humanized. The biography by Willing, based on family letters, adheres to the conventional attitudes it describes. It opens with Apley's birth in 1866 to a wealthy and socially prominent Boston family. His childhood is secure and serene, as he learns to move with the right people” and to accept a family ...