Word: codder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Wilson is a tubby, New Jersey-born Cape Codder who looks like a cross between a cantankerous professor and an absent-minded Roman emperor. At 55, with more than a quarter-century of serious writing behind him, he is best known to U.S. readers for Memoirs of Hecate County, a book of turgid intellectual short stories laced with enough sex to get them widely banned. Somerset Maugham, a more successful storywriter, whom Wilson calls a "half-trashy novelist . . . patronized by half-serious readers," considers Hecate County "so execrably bad you wonder whether it's worth reading what...