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BROOKLYN EAGLE, NOV. 30, 1947 Mb Norman Roster Philip Von Doron Stern I. S. Young Dovid Ewen Louis Untermeyer living and Writing in Brooklyn' By Eight Renowned Authors Who Live in Our Midst the sole element of success. it is, I am sold on the fair land.

'borough I have done the wholei ment houses. The room in which I write commands a Genes, too, have a good deal to do with it. So, with this in mind. I think I'll stav in Brook lyn and be content with doing sweeping view of the harbor, including the evergreen Statue of Liberty and the tip end of Manhattan cleaving the water like the great prow of a beautiful stone ship. Thus I ran look at the over just a little better in my next book.

LOUIS UNTERMEYER crowded streets of New York Poet, lecturer, anthologist and without having to live there. Which is one reason whv I'm Populace Survives of my forthcoming book, The bars are bigger the I have friendlier, the women prettier, given the final touches to the he terrain engagingly surrealis- novel, '-Anniversary," which tic; the inhabitants are a gentle. lappears early in 1048; I have arguable breed of varied but! made progress on a rather long firm dialect that have managed historic novel, I to adapt themselves to the rigid(have planned and in part exe-climate and surviv e. Their oc- cuted a book on Goethe for the cupations range from radar second centenary of his birth manufacturing to hand farmingjin 1049, and I have done in-Where else in alt the editorials and ar-j does the B. M.

T. roll through 'tides. Arid, since I am lazy cornfields and goat farms? and contemplative by nature, I Even George Washington slept suppose that a share, at least, here. of all that activity is to be at- And I should like to mention jtrihuted to something tranquil a devoted building where I have and agreeable in the borough done some good work the Mon-land section where my family tague Street Library, with its': and I make our home. critic.

Lives on Brooklyn Heights. I am not an original settler glad to live and write in Brook lyn. or an old inhabitant. Let me confess that I came to Brooklyn only three years ago and MARION BELDON COOK Author of the famous series of juvenile books. "Children of the U.

S. Lives rn Brooklyn Heights. The familiar sounds of New York Harbor come to me as I write these words which will bo my share in the Eagle's Christmas Book Number. My apartment on Brooklyn Heights is three short blocks from the Kast River and I am seldom away from the whistles of tug-; and ferries or the blasts of the sea going ships. It Is a challenging sound, voice of the world' greatest harbor where over 9,000 ships 'ome in during a year.

Your thoughts travel outward, not inward. Your imagination needs no passport as you follow the vessels to other harbors in many parts of the world. Khar in Distant Points Looking back over the long months of work which went into the compiling of my series, "Children of the U. S. it seems natural that it evolved here, near the harbor.

You think In terms of distances and of other peoples who will receive then it was by accident a happy accident, as it turned out. Born in New York City, I had lived there all my youth and early Then I long, round-the-railmg tame BERNARD JAFFE upstairs. There is no pleas went abroad and later lived on a mountain farm in the Adiron- Author of many books on sci anter place to work, and there are no nicer librarians anywhere in the world. dacks until the war brought me ence: received trie rancis Bacon Award for "humaniz back to New York, where I helped win the international conflict on WT. 57th St.

as an ing knowledge." Author of, "Crucibles," Outposts of Science," etc. Lives on Eastern editor at the OWL. It was there that I became Parkway. I. S.

YOUNG An assistant principal in the Kew York City School Sistem. Found time to write a number of non-fiction books and this year wrote "Jadie GreenwayJ' a novel based on his teaching experience Brooklyn. Lives on Feni-more St. I live in Brooklyn; when I'm. not writing I work in Brooklyn and my work has brought me into nearly every part of the borough.

One facet about living in Brooklyn has always fascinated me. I have found that the English language in Brooklyn is arranged in patterns which differ with the many racial heritages of culture and living. Loyal Vnit From vibrant Brownsville to impulsive Bedford-Stuyvesant to positive Greenpoint and Red Hook to sedate Flatbush and points west, speech and living vary in interesting, exciting progression. However, these LUDWIG LEWISOHN Xovelist and poetaster; author of "The Case of Mr. Crump," "Island Within," 'Mid-Channel," etc.

Lives on Park Slope. I live on a short and quiet closely associated with a purebred Brooklynite, Philip Van I was born just across the bridge, but have spent most of Doren Stern, and when Stern my life in Brooklyn. All of bought a handsome brown- mv books, which inciuae stone house on Remsen St. in street in Brooklyn near Pros Chemical Calculations," Tru addition to being my friend and colleague, he became my cibles," "Outposts of Science," "New World of Chemistry" and "Men of Science," were written right here. They are all the endless items of traie.j "Somehow, have your share in.

sdl this," the voice of the harbor seems to say. NORMAN ROSTEN peet Park, and so perhaps I take too idyllic a view of the borough. But here, in my particular quarter, very green in Summer and russet in Autumn, there is as good a chance to live the life of a writer as in byproducts of a quarter century of teaching in several roet and playwright; a graduate of Brooklyn College; winner any part of any great city in the world. My section of Brook-iBroukljn Atmosphere of the $1,000 Academy of Arts, lyn is not too remote fromj Apparently the Brooklyn at-theatexs and concert halls js lethal to the and Letters Awaid. l.ivex on I Srhermrrlmrn Rraoklun.

landlord. Incidentally, as a tenant I've never had a single thing to find fault with except one thing: The house is a little too cool in Summer and a trifle too warm in Winter. Brooklyn's Advantages Living in Brooklyn Heights has many advantages. For one thing it has all the best features of a metropolis plus the intimacy of a small town. The druggist around the corner is not only a merchant but your familiar friend: your neighbors are recognizable and helpful human- beings not anonymous dwellers in characterless apart- conferences and publishers 'achievement of either literary segments of Brooklyn living are not altogether discrete for they can be fused into a distinct Brooklyn group for any mass action and into a wildly loyal Brooklyn unit any Sunday or weekday between April and October in Ebbets Field.

Mvsterv, romance, hard- Re: "Living and Writing i Brooklyn" well, I've been liv-, ing here most of my life and( writing here since I began to, write about a decade ago. I have; lyric affinity toward the bor-, ough, which may account fori ihe two volumes of poetry wrii ten practically under the parties to make attendance ajor scientific success. Walt real hardship, and yet it is suf whitman did not do so badly, ficiently remote to fortify a Irving I.angmuir of the Gen-natural tendency to stay at-eral Electric Company and home for anything except the; isadore I. Rabi of Columbia bet and most important. i University both managed to At all events in the 3'i years win Nobel Prizes in science, that my home has been in this-iAtmosphere.

if course, is not boiled stuff, tender love story, all are plainly indicated in the Brooklyn streets, in the homes, In the faces, in the speech. They wait for discerning authors to come along to make something readable out of them. I've never lived elsewhere. I hope to find in Brooklyn the ingredients for many future pieces of work. t-hadow of the Brooklyn Bridge (I live on the Heighvs).

From the shores of Coney Island to the Kast River I have found it a solid though hlightly sprawling place. I still don't know for sure what we're bounded by on the east some say the shadowy region of Ca-narsie, some say Uowanus and others whisper mysteriou-I (much like the mariners on tho I'olumbus voyage of 1492) that the world sort of ends there in a big drop. I don't know if it's DAVID EWEN Music author and music critic. Wrote ''The Story 'of George Gershwin," "Music for the Millions," "Dictators of the Baton," etc. Lives in Flatbush.

Creatively speaking, I was the Dodgers, or the waterfront around Red Hook, or the old bridge, or the Chaucerian English, or the lovely over the Heights, or the invigorating of Protectants. Catholic, Jews, Italians, Negroes Portuguese, Armenians and just j.lxiut every other variety or other mystic reasons known born in Brooklyn. It was while living here that, some two decades ago, I wrote my first book; and it was here. too. that I be- 'gan my professional career as a Continued on Page 5 only to the faithful that keep me in Brooklyn, but whatever Morion Beldon Cook, I Ludwig LewisoHn.