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...Chang wrote The Rape of Nanking, a landmark work of history that helped push the 1937 bloodbath into the public's consciousness and the then-29-year-old American to the forefront of nonfiction writing. Criticized by some Japanese scholars who questioned its accuracy, Chang's book received wide acclaim almost everywhere else; the late Stephen Ambrose called her "maybe the best young historian we've got." Last year, she followed up The Rape of Nanking with The Chinese in America and had begun work on a book about soldiers who fought in the Philippines during World War II. While...
...DIED. HOWARD KEEL, 85, barrel-chested star of stage, screen and television; in Palm Desert, California. A powerful stage actor of the 1940s and '50s, Keel's ringing baritone and cavalier stage presence won him critical acclaim in Hollywood musicals including Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Keel rocketed to stardom as sharpshooter Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun, the first of a string of musicals he made for MGM. In 1981 he landed the role of oil-rich widower Clayton Farlow on the nighttime TV soap Dallas...
Bloom published his first work—Shelley’s Mythmaking—in 1959 and has continued to write and think seriously about literature ever since. His 1973 work The Anxiety of Influence earned him international acclaim for its novel contention that authors are constantly aware of their predecessors’ achievements and “misread” them in order to achieve originality. “Influence,” Bloom wrote, “is influenza—an astral disease...
Other works which have received critical acclaim include Myth, Literature and the African World (1976), a collection of poems, and The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (1996), which Soyinka adapted from a lecture series he gave at Harvard. He has also written two well-reviewed autobiographical works, Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981) and Ibadan, The Penkelemes Years, A Memoir...
...another kind. Wolfe is one of the greatest literary stylists and social observers of our much observed postmodern era. With books like The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, he has built a towering reputation both as a journalist and as a novelist, scoring both literary acclaim and commercial success in the process. He has hung out with Black Panthers and astronauts. He has feuded with John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving simultaneously...