W. M. Spackman

William Mode Spackman (1905-1990) was an American writer. He is noted for having achieved literary success relatively late in life, and for writing about romance from a realistic rather than a romantic perspective. William Mode Spackman was a member of the Princeton University class of 1927 where he received both his bachelor's and master's degrees. The characters of his novels are his fellow classmen, their high society at the time in New York City, and the women they kept time with. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford and received a Rockefeller Fellowship to study public opinion at Columbia University.He is the author of the novels:
*"An Armful of Warm Girl"
*"A Difference in Design"
*"A Little Decorum"
*"Heyday"
*"A Presence with Secrets"
*"As I Sauntered Out, on Mid-Century Morning"

He also authored a collection of essays entitled "On the Decay of Humanism."

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* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE4DC103FF93AA3575BC0A966958260 New York Times Obituary]