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Marcus Aurelius Goodrich (November 28, 1897 – October 20, 1991) was an American screenwriter and novelist. Biography. He was the first husband of the actress Olivia de Havilland. Their only son Benjamin was born on September 27, 1949. He was married beforehand to Elizabeth Norton, Henriette Alice McCrea-Metcalf, Caroline Sleeth, and Renee Oakman.
Marcus Goodrich was born on 28 November 1897 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Mighty Treve (1937), Navy Born (1936) and The Black Beast (1939). He was married to Olivia de Havilland, Caroline May Sleeth, Henrietta Alice McCrea and Isabel Pratt Norton.
- Writer, Actor
- November 28, 1897
- Marcus Goodrich
- October 20, 1991
Delilah is a novel by Marcus Goodrich first published in 1941. It revolves around the activities of the fictional American destroyer, the USS Delilah, and her crew in and around the Philippines in the time period from 1916 to 1917. The novel is loosely based on Goodrich's own experiences as a sailor on board the USS Chauncey, a destroyer.
Marcus Goodrich was born on November 28, 1897 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Mighty Treve (1937), Navy Born (1936) and The Black Beast (1939). He was married to Olivia de Havilland, Caroline May Sleeth, Henrietta Alice McCrea and Isabel Pratt Norton.
- November 28, 1897
- October 20, 1991
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Niven Busch in Rediscoveries:
“… Delilahgot good reviews too, and some the kind an author dreams of, particularly an author who has in him the quality of genius but has been forced to follow lowly trades while he bought time–“Ha!”–to do his work…. Delilah charged onto the best-seller lists, where it held a place for all too short a time. But it had made readers, and these readers, like the critics who had sensed in the book the emergence of a major talent, waited for Delilah‘s sequel–or if not another sea story, then at l...
Delilah was reissued in the 1960s as one of the titles in the Time Reading Program and in the 1970s as one of the titles in the Lost American Fiction series. It was reissued in 2000 in paperback from Lyons Press. Marcus Goodrich was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1897. He ran away from home at 16 to join the Navy. He left the Navy after World War O...
· Time, 24 February 1941
1. By any standards, it is a top-notch yarn. But what frames the story, gives it symbolic sense, restrains the turbulent narrative from getting too diffuse, clarifies each character, even makes amends for the faulty structure of the plot, is the bony morality of the sea.The story of Delilah begins a few months before the U. S. entry into World War I. She moves feverishly around the south Pacific, her obsolete engines incredibly overtaxed. She carries a Catholic monk to an island of rebellious...
· Clifton Fadiman in The New Yorker, 1 February 1941
1. I don’t know whether the book is worth the decade its composition has required–that’s entirely the author’s affair–but I am certain it is a remarkable work of art. Its defects are the defects of excessive vigor and of an overleaping imagination, which are perhaps preferable to the anemic virtues of caution. If 1941 gives us a better first novel by an American, it will be a year of wonders….… there is one set piece–the story of the monk and the fiendish Mr. Parker, whom nothing but music co...
20 ott 1991 · Marcus Aurelius Goodrich was an American screenwriter and novelist. He was the first husband of actress Olivia de Havilland. Their only son Benjamin was born on 1 December 1949. Before he was married to Elizabeth Norton, Henriette Alice McCrea-Metcalf, Caroline Sleeth, Renee Oakman.
In a series of exquisitely-drawn stories, Marcus Goodrich reveals tantalizing glimpses of the heart of each sailor as the crew puts down Philippine insurrections, searches for a gunrunner's cave told of only in island folklore, and delivers medicine to western mercenaries.
