• educator, and editor. Granville Hicks was born September 9, 1901, in Exeter, New Hampshire, to Frank Stevens and Carrie Weston (Horne) Hicks. He earned his A...
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    understanding. Both Harding LeMay and the novelist and literary critic Granville Hicks expressed doubt that children as sheltered as Scout and Jem could understand...
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  • Connecticut. A screening of the film, accompanied by a speech from Granville Hicks, was also banned in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The Spanish Earth...
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    John F. Sloan, Max Eastman, Mike Gold, as well as Joseph Freeman, Granville Hicks (starting in 1934), Walt Carmon, and James Rorty. Many contributors...
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    Hicks with Stuart, John Reed, page 33. Quoted in Hicks with Stuart, John Reed, p. 33. Hicks with Stuart, John Reed, p. 51. Macmilian, Granville Hicks...
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  • people George Hickes (disambiguation), several people George Hicks (disambiguation), several people Granville Hicks (1901–1982) Greg Hicks (born 1953),...
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    writing he was "absolutely certain the Cold War began in Ottawa". Granville Hicks described Gouzenko's actions as having "awakened the people of North...
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  • Review in a 1964 piece entitled "Beatnik in Lumberjack Country", critic Granville Hicks wrote: "In his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey...
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  • wondered how they had ever come to get aboard. … With the exception of Granville Hicks, probably none of these people was a Communist. They were fellow travelers...
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    was "set afire" by Jack London's The Sea-Wolf and The Iron Heel. Granville Hicks, reviewing Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano, was reminded of The Iron Heel:...
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