Elmore, no more

His death brings to an end a generation of novelists — Truman Capote, Alastair Maclean, John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway, whose brand of writing about a raw America — the period of war, poverty, depression, prohibition, gangsterism, union brawls, and moonlighting —illustrated to a world that even in a land of opportunity, hardships were the order of the day.