'48's Nine
Rochelle Girson's group interview in Saturday Review with nine young novelists whose first or breakthrough books appeared in 1948 — Mailer (for The Naked and the Dead), Truman Capote, Irwin Shaw, William Gardner Smith, John Cobb, Ross Lockridge Jr., Hollister Noble, Ruby Redinger, and Merle Miller.
“‘48’s Nine.” Interview by Rochelle Girson. Saturday Review, 12 February 1949, 12–14.
Brief interviews with nine young authors who debuted or had breakthrough books in 1948: Mailer, Truman Capote, Irwin Shaw, William Gardner Smith, John Cobb, Ross Lockridge Jr., Hollister Noble, Ruby Redinger, and Merle Miller.