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John P. Marquand By George Alex Windish Sometimes life, as well as writing careers, can take an unexpected detour along the way. Take the case of John P. Marquand. He was born in Delaware in 1893, and finished his college education in 1915, just in time to join the Massachusetts National Guard and spend some time in France as an artillery officer in World War I. After coming home, he had brief careers in journalism and advertising, but found his heart to be in the writing of fiction. He began to get published in 1922. Most of what he wrote were "literary" novels, but he did a few in the detective genre, titles like MING YELLOW and DON'T ASK QUESTIONS. In 1937, he won the Pulitzer Prize for a comedy of manners entitled THE LATE GEORGE APLEY. Fame at last, everybody thought. The problem is that few, if any, read those books today. His fame as a writer rests on the six spy novels that he wrote concerning the quiet,
unthreatening Mr. Moto. These six stories were masterpieces of setting and characterization, and led to movies and heaps of praise for
Marquand. He never understood it, though. Before his death in 1960, Marquand told an interviewer that the Moto books were a "disgrace," written only to have some money for his family.
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