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...year-old poet, essayist and literary critic from Poznan--who could not be reached for comment last night because he does not have a phone--was described by his mother as "very tired" from his academic and dissident work, but "overjoyed" at the news that the government had accepted his application for a passport...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Baranczak Granted Passport, To Assume Post at Harvard | 3/11/1981 | See Source »

...writer to have sought a small audience. Novelists and poets like John Updike, Randall Jarrell, Alison Lurie, John Gardner, Elizabeth Janeway and Ursula Le Guin have produced exemplary children's books. Of course, scholars and artists are not new to the libraries of kid lit. A generation ago, Essayist E.B. White composed his classics Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web, and Humorist James Thurber wrote The Thirteen Clocks, just as, a decade before, Oxford Don J.R.R. Tolkien had written The Hobbit, and before him, another Oxonian, Lewis Carroll, had produced the Alice books. But seldom have parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lively, Profitable World of Kid Lit | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

...year-old poet, essayist and literary critic, Baranczak in March 1978 accepted an offer, which has remained open, of an associate professorship in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: 'Encouraging' Signs Cited On Harvard Offer to Pole | 11/14/1980 | See Source »

...Atlantic with four National Magazine Awards (1971-73 and 1979) and its highest circulation ever (351,000). Whitworth will not assume full control of the Atlantic until next spring. But Zuckerman already plans to add popular Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman and British Journalist William Shawcross as contributors. Science Essayist Lewis Thomas and London Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans have been signed as senior advisory editors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Sea Change | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...peripatetic and specifist of sorts, McPhee -- like his cohorts -- must feel somewhat cheered now that many private concerns have risen to the general interest, and the essay once again enjoys a reasonably wide and diverse circulation. As for success and riches, the lot of the essayist has probably been most realistically defined, once again, by E.B. White. "A writer who has his sights trained on the Nobel Prize or other earthly triumphs had best write a novel, a poem, or a play," assures White, "and leave the essayist to ramble about, content with living a free life and enjoying...

Author: By Fred Setterberg, | Title: DITCH DIGGERS | 9/18/1980 | See Source »

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