GUGGENHEIM CREATIVE WRITING FELLOWSHIPS IN 1946

Eight fellowships in creative writing were among the 132 announced April 14 by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. They went to:

• • Poet Randall Jarrell, identified as Sergeant Randall Jarrell. His first collection of poems, Blood From a Stranger, had been published in 1942 and his subsequent Little Friend, Little Friend, published in 1945, drew on his Army experience. He later would win the National Book Award.

  • Arthur Ranous Wilmurt, a playwright from Yale who had a few short-lived productions on Broadway.

  • James Still, author of On Troublesome Creek. He wrote mostly about Appalachia.

  • Gwendolyn Brooks, African-American poet who won acclaim for A Street in Bronzeville and later won a Pulitzer.

  • Virginia Eggertsen Sorenson, author of A Little Lower Than the Angels. Sorenson, who often wrote about Mormons, had a new novel, On This Star, coming out in May.

  • Roger Lemelin of Quebec, author of Au Pied de la Pente Douce, published in English as The Town Below.

  • Carson McCullers. She was a major talent who emerged in the 1940s. The Member of the Wedding was published in 1946. She had already written The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Reflections In a Golden Eye.

  • George Zabriskie, poet from Marietta College.

Twenty-eight year old historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. won a Guggenheim Fellowship to follow up his best selling book The Age of Jackson with a "political-intellectual" history of the New Deal. The book, The Vital Center, was published in 1949.