The Mississippi Quarterly, September 22nd, 2001
OUR LITERATURE HAS REACHED MATURITY NOW; a finished, full-fruited maturity that stands on a par with the older literature of the older world.
Stanley Young, senior editor with Harcourt-Brace, one-time reviewer with the New York Times, and an author in his own right, has classified the present literature as the first important phase since Uncle Tom's Cabin. The late Edward J. O'Brien said of our present literature that it was born of the last war. Thus the definite strides in our literature seem to coincide with our wars. It must be because in all crises, human life is cheap and always, wher...
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