William March (September 18, 1893 to May 15, 1954), was an American writer. He is obscure today, and he was in the 1930s, when he started writing. Some of his novels are, The Tallons, (1936) and October Island (1952). His prose was excellent, as we can observe in this excerpt from The Tallons:
She lifted the overfed kitchen cat, curled him into her lap, and thought of her uncles and the complexity of their relationship. She had not known what the quarrel was about, but she had speculated over it a good deal.
According to the Encyclopedia of Alabama:
The Looking-Glass is generally considered to be March's best Alabama-based work and, indeed, his best novel. His biographer, Roy S. Simmonds, called the novel March's "most accomplished full-length work."
His life is interesting and I suggest reading the article at the link already cited. There I learned that, after he had a novel published in April, March was found dead of a heart attack in his bed. In his typewriter there was the first page of another novel, titled: "Poor Pilgrim, Poor Stranger."
The Bad Seed was published in April of 1954. March did not live to see his book made into a successful Broadway play, and a famous movie. If you just saw the movie, you missed the complete grimness of that work. The Bad Seed is an attempt by the 20th century to come to grips with the implications of major scientific advances of the modern era. The movie was sanitized.
According to the Encyclopedia of Alabama:
The Looking-Glass is generally considered to be March's best Alabama-based work and, indeed, his best novel. His biographer, Roy S. Simmonds, called the novel March's "most accomplished full-length work."
His life is interesting and I suggest reading the article at the link already cited. There I learned that, after he had a novel published in April, March was found dead of a heart attack in his bed. In his typewriter there was the first page of another novel, titled: "Poor Pilgrim, Poor Stranger."
The Bad Seed was published in April of 1954. March did not live to see his book made into a successful Broadway play, and a famous movie. If you just saw the movie, you missed the complete grimness of that work. The Bad Seed is an attempt by the 20th century to come to grips with the implications of major scientific advances of the modern era. The movie was sanitized.
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