Word: authorly
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Famous for his temper and contempt for authority, Dr. Gallo has weathered his share of scientific catfights. A brilliant scientist, he is the author or co-author of more than 1,000 scientific papers and one of the world's most frequently cited researchers. In the 1970s, while at the National Cancer Institute, he discovered the immune-boosting molecule interleukin-2 and isolated the first cancer-causing retroviruses in humans...
PAUL RUDNICK, a playwright and screenwriter, is the author of the play and film Jeffrey and the film Addams Family Values...
DIED. QUENTIN BELL, 86, British artist, author and noted biographer of his novelist aunt, Virginia Woolf; in Firle, England. Born into a Bloomsbury family, he became a chronicler of the famed intellectual group that included his aunt as well as E.M. Forster and Duncan Grant...
DIED. HARRY KEMELMAN, 88, author of the popular Rabbi Small mystery series; in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Beginning with Friday the Rabbi Slept Late, his tales won praise for their masterly mix of sleuthing and Judaica...
...Delicate Balance. A suburban couple are paid a visit by friends who don't want to leave. Edward Albee's play may have seemed elusive back in the 1960s. But reincarnated by a fine cast (George Grizzard, Rosemary Harris), it proves to be one of the author's most poetic and vivid depictions of the dark at the bottom of the stairs...