Word: authoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life to tourist memories. The Stones of Florence is in the end a solid tribute to the city and its people past and present, an estimate achieved without the least sentimentality, and free of solemn artiness. Some readers may say that this is not the Florence they saw, but Author McCarthy saw it thus, and her city is in the book...
...point of drinking, uttering menaces, shooting lions and helling about with women, that one suspects him of wearing a toupee-all that chest hair can't be real. At any rate, he is a standard literary article -the poor boy who gouges his way to wealth. The author's account of the gouging has its moments, but doggedly lumped together, they become hours...
...part. Old Pro Ruark may have been betrayed by a compulsion to be autobiographical. Hero Price follows Author Ruark's trail almost exactly as he grows up in a small North Carolina town (Ruark was born in Wilmington, N.C.) and gets his schooling at Chapel Hill, where he becomes involved with bootleggers (Ruark says he had "a connection with Texas Guinan's brother, who had a connection in New Jersey"). After that, the author departs from his own life story and builds Craig Price into a villain who marries for money, fires his secretary-mistress and his best...
...candle, burning at both ends, is printed on the cover of Poor No More. It may be intended to symbolize the state of society, or of the book's hero, but it might just as well represent brightly burning Author Ruark. Since World War II, besides his syndicated column, old Reporter Ruark (Washington Daily News) has churned out magazine articles, movie scripts and half a dozen books, including the bloody Mau Mau bestseller, Something of Value (TIME, May 2, 1955). All this has taken its toll-several million dollars after taxes, Ruark estimates happily...
...fortress -for instance, Joseph K. of Franz Kafka's The Trial-they are quickly evicted with the first entry of the jailer. He is a redhaired, comic-opera functionary who promptly asks the prisoner for a waltz. As they whirl off down the corridor, it becomes plain what Author Nabokov is up to; he is writing a fantasy-satire whose imagery is surrealist, whose logic is the logic of the dream...