SOURCE: "Edna Ferber's Roaring North Woods Tale," in New York Herald Tribune Books, February 24, 1935, p. 3.

Gale was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American dramatist, novelist, essayist, and critic. In the following favorable review of Come and Get It, she applauds the unrelenting pace of the novel.

There are two ways, there are many ways of writing fiction from fact. One is to use the method which Henry Adams employed not for writing fiction, but for imposing a mood. For permitting the reader not so much exercises in shared factual observation as in opening a door, offering a threshold. In San Christobal de la Habana Joseph Hergesheimer employs, again not for fiction, the same method—giving the reader no record, no sequence, but catching him up into the very air and levels of that which he has to communicate. Virginia Woolf is able to use these channels to a mood, and...