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...maintained in overlapping careers as a journalist, novelist, poet, classical historian, media personality and politician. "My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it," says Johnson, who became editor of the venerable British political magazine the Spectator in 1999 and swiftly reneged on a promise to Conrad Black, its proprietor at the time, not to seek a parliamentary seat. Johnson biographer Andrew Gimson later interviewed Black, whose name is now something of a byword for double-dealing after his conviction last year for criminal fraud. Black described Johnson as "ineffably duplicitous...
...maintained in overlapping careers as a journalist, novelist, poet, classical historian, media personality and politician. "My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it," says Johnson, who became editor of the venerable U.K. political magazine the Spectator in 1999 and swiftly reneged on a promise to Conrad Black, its proprietor at the time, not to seek a parliamentary seat. Johnson's biographer Andrew Gimson later interviewed Black, now something of a byword for double-dealing after his conviction this summer for criminal fraud. Black described his former employee as "ineffably duplicitous...
...Elizabeth Jacobs, David Jiang, Rohan Kekre, Alyssa Elizabeth Stimson King, Ajay Ganesh Kumar, Benjamin Jiawei Lee, Luke Xiru Li, Yin Li, Paul Peter Linden-Retek, Karan Lodha, Matthew Ryan McFarlane, Taylor Mayly Owings, Aadhithi Padmanabhan, Allen James Pope, Tony Dahao Qian, Adam Emanuel Adatto Sandel, Meike Katharina Schallert, Samuel Conrad Scott, Mark Abraham Shepard, Yen-whei Shih, Melissa Yuwono Tjota, Catherine Lin Vaughan, Amanda Lee Willis, Yoshitaka Yamamoto, Crystal Yang, Andy Han Yuan, Elena Yudovina, Rocksheng Zhong
...best books to pass time riding on the T.) Yale also boasts several playwrights who’ve won Pulitzers, including Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, and Doug Wright. Harvard winners include autobiographer Henry Adams class of 1858, novelist James R. Agee ’32, and poets ranging from Conrad P. Aiken ’12 to former U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz ’26. Harvard’s golden age of poetry has been lauded in numerous publications, and its early years were in part defined by the presence of power roommates Thoreau and Emerson...
...Australia has a vigorous cultural life, sometimes enthrallingly so. The list of first-rank Australian novelists, headed up by Murray Bail, Peter Carey and David Malouf--writers of exceptional power and social insight--is a considerable one. London has a brilliant biographer and diagnostician of past culture in Peter Conrad, an erudite and dark-minded expatriate from Tasmania...