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Article: Celebrating The Late John P. Marquand
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- The Washington Post
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- January 10, 1988
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WICKFORD POINT By John P. Marquand (1939)
IN HIS day John P. Marquand was one of the most popular and
celebrated of American novelists, but Marquand's day was a long time
ago. Nobody seems to read him now except Yardleys and other
superannuated white Anglo-Saxon Protestants; his novels occupied
prominent places on my parents' bookshelves, first in Virginia and
then in Rhode Island, and last spring when I visited my uncle in
Hawaii, of all places, what should I find but a full shelf of
Marquand, of all people. Perhaps time, or the times, has passed us
by; but at least so far as Marquand is concerned, that is a pity.
He deserves better.
This is a sentiment with which Marquand, were he still ...