By Love Possessed
by James Gould Cozzensliterary work· published 1957
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By Love Possessed is a novel written by James Gould Cozzens and published on August 26, 1957, by Harcourt Brace and Company, and became a critically acclaimed best-seller. In 1960, it was awarded the William Dean Howells Medal, an award given every five years to the best novel of the previous five years. The novel was turned into a feature film in which Lana Turner co-starred. By Love Possessed was one of Cozzens' "professional novels", whose stories presented fully developed characters and placed a special emphasis on the details of their work.
