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Before embarking on her career as an essayist and novelist, she studied in Paris and lectured in philosophy and religion at various New York universities...
...year-old murdering a classmate, he says, stems from an article he wrote for TIME in 1982 that later became a book, Children of War, a story of children in war zones around the world, which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize. Rosenblatt, a regular essayist on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, says he was caught up in this story "not only because of the horrific situation of a child killing another child but also because the larger context of the story seems to connect to so many other problems in the country." The prolific Rosenblatt wrote this week...
...Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61, a former chair of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors from 1982 to 1984 and a frequent essayist on conservative economics, does not try to mask his political leanings, concentrators...
...Nobel prizewinner, physical culturist, naval historian, biographer, essayist, rancher, conservationist, cavalry officer, Governor and President here...
...Lolita remains a brilliant book, a wonderland of language and longing, with an undiminished capacity to enthrall, outrage and provoke litigation. Nabokov had to fight many obscenity battles when the book was published. Now a derivative novel, Lo's Diary (Foxrock; 292 pages; $22.95), by the Italian essayist and translator Pia Pera, has been issued--after the settling of a lawsuit brought by Nabokov's son Dimitri. He insisted that he be allowed to write a preface to the book and that 5% of its profits go to the International Pen Club. Deal...