Buy this book on-line Farmer, Frances : God Dies in The Scholastic: A National Classroom MagazineThe Scholastic Publishing Company, Pittsburgh, 1931
4to. Entire issue, Volume 18, Number 7, May 2, 1931, in original printed wraps, generally bright and clean with very light wear-only, and a bit of dust soiling at top and fore edge. In 1931, while yet a senior at West Seattle High School, Seattle, Washington, the author -- who would go on to fame, and tragedy, in Hollywood and the theater -- entered and won $100 from The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a writing contest for high school students sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, with the present, controversial essay. In her autobiography, Will There Really Be A Morning?, Farmer wrote that the essay was influenced by her reading of Friedrich Nietzsche: "He expressed the same doubts, only he said it in German: Gott ist tot. God is dead. This I could understand. I was not to assume that there was no God, but I could find no evidence in my life that He existed or that He had ever shown any particular interest in me. I was not an atheist, but I was surely an agnostic, and by the time I was sixteen I was well indoctrinated into this theory." The essay is accompanied by a small portrait of the youthful Farmer. Very scarce,. Magazine. Book Condition: VG. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Farmer, Frances : God Dies in The Scholastic: A National Classroom Magazine. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including antiquarian books, livres rares, rare books, used books and fine bindings. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |