Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mary Robison, critically acclaimed author and Briggs Copeland Assistant Professor in English, met her present spouse, James, when he "offered me a lift on his motorcycle between states somewhere, on the way to Motor City...
...think the most interesting thing about Mary's reputation is that while she's not widely known, she has been very influential on young writers like David Leavitt," adds Andrew Wiley, her agent. Author and fellow Car instructor Chris Leland attributes the effectiveness of her writing to "her wonderful economy of language...
Stoppard, the author of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" and "The Real Thing," delivered the John M. Olin Lecture in Science Center C as part of the Distiguished Lecturer Series. In the past two years, the series has hosted Richard Rodriguez and Miss Manners...
William W. Provost '88, who has directed several productions at Harvard, said he enjoyed the lecture because, "If an author doesn't know everything that is written into a text, then a director has the right to drag something out of the text that no one else has seen...
...with this paradox that journalist Francois Maspero describes his first novel, Cat's Grin. The tale of a thirteen-year-old boy who seeks his deported parents and missing brother during the upheaval of the French Liberation after the Second World War, Cat's Grin is about the author's own childhood. Yet Maspero protests that the book is "not an autobiography--definitely...