Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Manuel Puig, author of the play Under a Mantle of Stars, chose not to live this credo...
Book-page editors were charmed by The Wedding and its elderly author, not simply because of the Onassis connection and the novel's considerable merits. The astonishing truth was that this was West's second time around as fame's darling. She was, in fact, the last surviving member -- ''the Kid," they called her then -- of a group of formidably gifted black writers of the late '20s and early '30s, the period of the Harlem Renaissance. This flare of talent included poets Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes and novelists Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston. While still in her teens...
...Kitchen, were sent to an upstate New York correctional facility, where they were repeatedly raped, beaten and tortured by four sadistic guards. Or were they? Lorenzo swears his account is true, but admits that nearly all the details in "Sleepers" are fictitious, intentionally altered to disguise his friends. The author seems surprised that anyone would question the veracity of such a disguised tale, but, says TIME's Paul Gray, details do matter. " 'Whatever' won't do as the ruling principle of a book that purports to tell the truth." Previous TIME Daily Campaign...
Platte River, a collection of novellas by Montana author Rick Bass, excels at setting a mood of precarious innocence and using the natural environment to enhance the characters and plots...
Bass is also the author of Winter and The Ninemile Wolves. Platte River is a Ballantine trade paperback, with a cover price...