Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BRITISH AUTHOR NICHOLAS EVANS was slowly picking at a dinner roll during a banquet in Bellevue, Washington, sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. He was regaling the table with some Western trivia he had picked up while doing research for his best-selling novel The Horse Whisperer. The bookstore owners listened attentively as he described "pitchfork fondue," a delicacy prepared by melting chunks of lard in a huge kettle, then dunking slabs of beef into the oozing caldron with a trident...
Alcott was such an author. In the 1860s, she published dozens of tales under the pseudonym of M. Barnard...
...MILITARY LEADER, POWELL HAS MY utmost respect, and as a book author, he already has my money. But as a candidate, he would have a tough time finding a vote here. Powell's positions on issues are pure politics. Although Powell is talented, a person doesn't get to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs unless he is a political animal, and his years as a Washington insider are not what the country needs. If Powell intends to follow in the footsteps of another general, let's hope it is MacArthur, not Ike, and that Powell quietly fades away. MIKE...
ENGAGED. JACKIE COLLINS, 53, empress of the trash read; and fiftyish shopping-mall magnate FRANK CALCAGNINI. The wedding will be the third time around for the author...
DIED. BESSIE DELANY, 104, co-author with her sister Sadie, 106, of Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years, a wry account of their lives as African Americans, from Jim Crow to justice--now a Broadway hit; in Mount Vernon, New York...