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Roseboro who told me of Sister Carrie. “Read that book,” she said, “it's wonderful.” It is wonderful, though it's a horrifying book. The American Tragedy was written much later - the day before yesterday almost. It wasn't written until the mid-twenties. I was fully grown up by the time An American Tragedy was printed and I wasn't looking around to see what I could see.

I think Sister Carrie is still a great book. There is no characterization like it anywhere in American literature, except the Scarlet Letter. The characterization of Sister Carrie makes your blood run cold. It makes you creep. Talk about the Death of a Salesman, can anyone forget that man sitting by the radiator - Carrie's husband - and making believe that he was looking at the advertisements for help wanted? I can't forget it. He had the talent for characterization.

Another person who came in and out of New York in those days was Frank Norris, who wrote The Pit and The Octopus. Was he not a wonderful person? We didn't know him at all well, but he appeared across the scene. One met him. He was a very extraordinary person. Upton Sinclair also turned up.

Frank Norris had blazing eyes. One of the things that started him on his literary career was not the passion to