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The best of both worlds: the problem of John P. Marquand.
JOHN P. MARQUAND'S CREDENTIALS AS A MEMBER OF AMERICA'S BLUE-blood upper class are considerable. He was born to an elite lineage that included Joseph Dudley, Margaret Fuller, and Edward Everett Hale. At Harvard, he made Lampoon, if not the Harvard Club, and later returned to receive an honorary degree. He served honorably in Army Intelligence in both World Wars. His face adorned the cover of Time. He won a Pulitzer Prize for The Late George Apley, which was, an anonymous reviewer in the "Notes and Comment" section of the New Yorker wrote in Marquand's obituary tribute, "the best-wrought fictional monument to the nation's Protestant elite that we know of" (Birmingham 88). ...
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