Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-01-20 | Page 3 | Writer Reveals Thoughts for Inquiring Critic

Writer V Reveals r Thoughts for Inquiring Critic S Says the Times and Not Others Influence Most S Writers In the personal and otherwise columns columns columns col col- col- col of the Harpers Harper's Magazine Rose Wilder Lane replies to an earlier letter letter letter let let- ter from a subscriber who in praisIng praising praising ing her story Innocence which was awarded one of the O. O Henry Henry- prizes hazards the guess that it was greatly influenced by Katherine Mansfield Mrs Lanes Lane's letter must voice the views views' of many other writers Mr Ks K's comment on my work makes me ne chuckle like Ulee a Damascus fountain says she Katherine Mansfields Mansfield's in influence influence in- in fluence unon uTon me is purely in realms of the astral for I have never read reada a line of her work worl I shall look for forIt forit forit it as soon as I return to the book lands For nearly four years I have been unable to get anything to read save French and Albanian publications publications an occasional or old Paris Pans Herald and now flow and then a wireless news new sheet from a destroyer Surely it is a pity if It Katherine Mansfield or any other writer affects at- at fiction so profoundly as Mr K K- suggests The best fiction can give only a second-hand second view of the writers writer's writers writer's writ writ- ers er's subjects and surely only second second- raters are influenced by it Writers are just normal human beings that thatIs Is products of their time This it Jt seems to me accounts for the similarities similarities simi simi- which critics group Into schools Fishes also KO gp In schools behind behind be be- hind a leader but it Is the current that directs them I