Word: authorly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Updike received an honorary Doctor of Letters from Harvard. The degree lauded the author, noting "[his] words living on the page, have given us a profound vision of a familiar society and shown us as though in a mirror our human nature in a perplexed time, with all our frailties and all our yearning for a place in the world...
Most notably, she is the co-author of Health Skills for Wellness, a school textbook, the first ever to devote a full chapter to violence prevention...
...footman at the house next door, the better to spot Phipps when he returns. Very quickly--Carey mimes perfectly the Victorian novelist's skill at making the implausible seem inevitable--Maggs comes to the attention of one of his master's dinner guests, the rising young author Tobias Oates. When Maggs, serving the wine, collapses from the pain of a tic douloureux in his cheek, Oates volunteers to relieve the servant's anguish by mesmerizing, i.e., hypnotizing, him. Maggs, a man desperate to keep secrets, is at the mercy of Oates, a man avid to exploit them...
...libs an original and freestanding performance, replete with the sorts of twists and shocks and coincidences that originally gave page turners a good name. And those readers who retain a clear sense of Dickens' novel will encounter a trove of subtle allusions, not just to the 19th century author's life and works but also to the predatory relationship between an inventor of tales and the real-life subjects who find themselves grist for this creative mill...
Stephanie A. Smith-Warner, a lead author on the study and a research fellow in nutrition at HSPH, said the study's results were widely applicable...