Edward M. Hoagland '54, of New Canaan, Conn., and Adams House, has been awarded a 1954 Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship for a novel he is writing about circus life.

Houghton Mifflin fellowships which are given once or twice a year to authors of significant manuscripts in fiction or non-fiction, involve an award of $2,400, half of which is a grant and half an advance against royalties.

Still Untitled

Hoagland's novel, which will be finished next fall and published by Houghton Mifflin in the fall of 1955, differs from most other circus stories in its emphasis on the wild animals of the big show. It is more than two-thirds completed now, but is still untitled.

The novel, which Hoagland is writing under the supervision of Prof. Archibald MacLeish in English S, is the fourth published work to come out of that course.