Good Hunting

Not many U.S. housewives have gotten such a windfall in the morning mail as came last fortnight to 25-year-old Dorothea Cornwell of Louisville. She had just won the biennial $10,000 prize awarded jointly, by Manhattan Publishers Dodd, Mead & Co. and Redbook* for the best unpublished novel submitted. Author Cornwell's prizewinner, They Dare Not Go AHunting, which was selected from several hundred entries, will run serially this summer in Redbook, appear in book form some time later.

They Dare Not Go AHunting, a psychological study of the relations between a mother and her daughter, was inspired by a line from British Poet William Ailingham's The Fairies ("We daren't go ahunting for fear of little men"). Born (1919) Dorothea Graff in Pittsburgh (she married Du Pont Engineer Donovan Cornwell on leaving high school), Author Cornwell began her literary career writing book reviews for the Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator, later turned to short-story writing. In 1942 she won second prize in a Story magazine short-story contest. A devotee of dancing, riding, dogs and South American music, as well as "a very bad cook," Author Cornwell had last week finished the first chapters of her second novel--which is about another mother-daughter situation showing the effect of environment upon a child.

* First awarded six years ago,The Redbook-Dodd, Mead Prize has yet to be won by a man. Some prizewinners: Elizabeth Seifert (Young Doctor Galahad, 1938); Harlow Estes (Hildreth, 1940); Ellen Proctor (Turning Leaves, 1942).

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.