‘Synopsis’ by ‘W.J.W [W.J Weatherby], Guardian, 16th May, 1962, p. 7

Article included in review page of the Cannes Film Festival, focusing on the news of American director Stanley Kramer buying the rights to writer Katherine Ann Porter’s novel Ship of Fools. Article mentions JB’s admiration for Katherin Ann Porter’s writing:

‘The American delegation nominated it [Ship of Fools] at the recent Prix Formentor conference in Majorca and when Angus Wilson referred to John Cowper Powys as the neglected genius in our literature James Baldwin, the American Negro writer, said that was how he regarded Miss Porter’.