Word: authorly
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Margaret Floyd, author of a well-known book on Harvard architecture and a professor of architectural history at Tufts University, said the University should have listened to appeals from historians and architects such as herself, who urged Harvard to find alternative uses for the building...
Architectural historian Douglass Shand-Tucci '72, author of Built in Boston, a book on area architectural history, said yesterday the University should have known better than to tear down such an important building without considering its past...
DIED. JOHN PATRICK, 90, author of the Pulitzer-prizewinning hit play The Teahouse of the August Moon (1953) and numerous screenplays; in Delray Beach, Florida...
DIED. JOSE YGLESIAS, 75; writer; in New York City. The American-born author of Cuban-Spanish ancestry brought a reporter's sensibility to such enduring works as The Truth About Them (1971), a multi-generational novel tracing a Cuban family from Florida immigration to middle-class success, and The Franco Years (1977), an oral history of Spain's darkest days...
...military government of Nigeria hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa, a prominent author and critic of the regime, along with eight others who had been accused with him of involvement in the murder of four pro-government leaders last year. Saro-Wiwa maintained his innocence to the end; his supporters say he and his co-defendants were framed. After the executions, the U.S. and several other countries withdrew their ambassadors, and the Commonwealth nations of Britain and its former colonies, meeting in New Zealand, suspended Nigeria...