Word: author
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author's company, everyone turns into a Crews character. The actor
...Author Flannery O'Connor spent most of her adult life with her mother on a dairy farm just outside Milledgeville, Ga., up the road a piece from Macon and a middling way from Atlanta. Her isolation there began involuntarily. At 25 she was already a noteworthy Southern expatriate and a prizewinning graduate of the University of Iowa's School for Writers. She had put in time at Yaddo, an artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., along with luminous fellow guests like Robert Lowell. She had settled down in the Connecticut household of Poet Robert Fitzgerald, his wife...
...record of a remarkable life is an occasion for sadness, a reminder of wisdom cut off much too soon. But the emotion that Flannery O'Connor conveyed most often was joy, and this survives intact. Once a correspondent had suggested that someone would write a life of the author. Flannery pooh-poohed the idea...
Murder at the ABA (Doubleday, $7.95 hardcover; Fawcett, $1.75 paperback). At a convention of the American Booksellers Association, a bestselling young novelist named Giles Devore is found dead in his hotel room. The only one who suspects foul play is Author Darius Just, and he must work his way through a healthy number of suspects to prove his case. The formula is familiar, and Asimov, wearing his mystery writer's hat, works it out with ease. He also introduces himself as a character and manages to dominate long passages of the novel; when Asimov is not onstage, other characters...
Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old Testament and The New Testament (each: Doubleday, $12.95 hardcover; Avon, $4.95 paperback). It was the omissions in the Old and New Testaments that begat Asimov's Guide to the Bible (1968 and 1969). "It happens," writes the author, "that millions of people today know of Nebuchadnezzar, and have never heard of Pericles, simply because Nebuchadnezzar is mentioned prominently in the Bible and Pericles is never mentioned at all." Biblical Scholar Asimov characteristically mentions all: history, biography, geography, archaeology and cross-culture myths that are the roots if not the artistic...