Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fairly blatant," she says. "The student just retyped a whole article about an author about whom I knew quite...
Although his name never appeared, Rudenstine is widely acknowledged as the author of yesterday's three-quarters-page statement "On the Importance of Diversity in University Admissions" that appeared on page A27 of the national edition of The New York Times...
...BOOKS. . . MASON & DIXON: Although there are similarities of length and his trademark narrative rhythm, Thomas Pynchon?s new novel (Henry Holt; 773 pages; $27.50) is in some ways even more difficult than its famously challenging predecessor, 'Gravity's Rainbow.' This time out, the author renounces contemporary English speech altogether and casts the entire narrative in the 18th century diction allegedly spoken by a clergyman named Wicks Cherrycoke; he is the one who tells aloud the tale of his one-time acquaintances Charles Mason (1728-86) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-79) over what must have been an incredibly long night...
Gomes quoted New England's First Fruits, a book written by an anonymous author during the mid-1600s to attract European investors to the colonial effort. "The Indians were to be the first fruits of a great general harvest," he said. "They were to be the vanguard of the reformation of the world...
DIED. HELENE HANFF, 80, letter-loving U.S. author, whose wry and witty 20-year correspondence with a London bookseller delighted readers on both shores when she turned it into a book, 84, Charing Cross Road; in New York City. It became a play, then a film with Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins...