Word: fictional
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DIED. Paul Scott, 57, British novelist best known for The Raj Quartet, a brooding, four-volume portrait of the decline and fall of British rule in India; of cancer; in London. After an abortive career as an accountant and literary agent, Scott began to write poetry and fiction based on his experiences as a soldier in India during World War II. His interlocking 2,000-page masterpiece is a blending of private and public histories that evokes a doomed world of racism and heroics...
...University has established a short story prize contest in Ecker's name for freshmen. Ecker enjoyed writing fiction and helped his friend Alfred E. Lewis '78 with a story which appeared in 1975 in Harper's magazine...
...FICTION...
...author of children's stories; of a stroke; in Manhattan. After a lonely childhood as the daughter of an unsuccessful land speculator, McGinley moved to New York, took a job as a junior high school English teacher, and began selling poems to literary magazines. Asked by New Yorker Fiction Editor Katherine White, "Why do you sing the same sad songs all lady poets sing?" McGinley began to find her own voice and to extol the pleasures and poignancies of the hearth, Memorial Day parades, the smell of charcoal grills, the damp loafers on the lawn. "Mothers are hardest...
...sense, Padre, Padrone develops within a movie-as-book format; based on Ledda's autobiography, the film's three-part, linear structure reminds one of a novel chronologically tracing the ascent of its protagonist. Indeed, the script's crisp, taut dialogues often resemble the verbal sparseness of some contemporary fiction...