Background
Schmitt, Gladys was born on May 31, 1909 in Pittsburgh. Daughter of Henry H. and Leonore (Link) Schmitt.
(The reign of the Emperor Decius (250 A.D.) was a time whi...)
The reign of the Emperor Decius (250 A.D.) was a time which the great English historian Toynbee likens to our own - "a time of troubles." Troubles there were - Goths descending upon the Empire from the northern forests, Christians setting up a state within a state, and appalling corruption and chaos on every level, from the senators to the slaves. It is with Favorinus Herennius that the reader is taken through all the levels of Roman society in this year of decision. It begins in the fabulously wealthy family of the Herennii, where the young man - charming, intelligent, handsome -seeks and fails to find the meaning of life, and turns his back on a mother whose sole interest is money and prestige and on a sister Drusilla, who can think of nothing but the wreck of what her friends call "the worst marriage in Rome." Nor can he find the significance he seeks in the circle of artists and intellects gathered around his Greek mistress Charis. This is a novel of a yesterday which is all too like our own. In the splendid ruins and the hovels, in the Forum and on battlefields, you will find yourself. In the orgies and the persecutions, in the ruthlessness and the demoralization, you will see what you have been witnessing in the world for the last twenty years. But here, too, is a story of hope, since some new shoot always springs out of the decay. The primitive Christian Church survives the collapse of this dying civilization, rises triumphant out of the ruin in spite of the beasts and the rack and the fire.
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Schmitt, Gladys was born on May 31, 1909 in Pittsburgh. Daughter of Henry H. and Leonore (Link) Schmitt.
Born to Henry and Leonore (Link) Schmitt, she attended Chatham University, then transferred and graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1932.
With Scholastic (magazine), 1933-1942, beginning in Pittsburgh office, transferred to New York City office, 1939. Professor of English Carnegie Institute Technology, Pittsburgh, 1942-1972. Won 3d prize in Scholastic high school poetry contest, 1929.
1st prize Witter Bynner College awards, 1931. Endowed with Thomas S. Baker chair in English Literature Carnegie-Mellon U., Pittsburgh, 1970. Author: Gates of Aulis (novel), 1942.
David the King, 1946. Alexandra, 1947; Confessors of the Name, 1952. The Persistent Image, 1955.
A Small Fire, 1957; Rembrandt, 1961. Electra, 1965; The God-forgotten, 1972. Sonnets for an Analyst, 1973.
Contributor poetry and short stories to mags. Home: Pittsburgh PA.
(The reign of the Emperor Decius (250 A.D.) was a time whi...)
Married Simon Goldfield, November 27, 1939.