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Ford Madox Ford, by Alan Judd (Harvard University Press, 476 pp., $27.50)

‘FORD HAD a vast and dismal studio. . . . He was a great fat Englishman . . . [who] took into his house a series of mediocre and respectable women who took care of him and were all called Mrs. Ford . . . a vast room badly heated by a very small oil stove and furnished with all sorts of uncomfortable chairs and day beds, most of them too far from the stove to be reached by its faint glow . . . making conversation with Ford, who for some occult reason fancied himself a lady-killer, but in spite of this was witty in the best manner of the English and really fun to talk to. Around me was greatness and fame . . . the Hemingways, the F. Scott Fitzgeralds, the Archie Mac-Leishes.”

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Ford Madox Ford, by Alan Judd (Harvard University Press, 476 pp., $27.50)

‘FORD HAD a vast and dismal studio. . . . He was a great fat Englishman . . . [who] took into his house a series of mediocre and respectable women who took care of him and were all called Mrs. Ford . . . a vast room badly heated by a very small oil stove and furnished with all sorts of uncomfortable chairs and day beds, most of them too far from the stove to be reached by its faint glow . . . making conversation with Ford, who for some occult reason fancied himself a lady-killer, but in spite of this was witty in the best manner of the English and really fun to talk to. Around me was greatness and fame . . . the Hemingways, the F. Scott Fitzgeralds, the Archie Mac-Leishes.”