Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old professor of English, the contrast is merely one of many that fill both his career and his personality. A Californian who wears a checked jacket but carries a staid green book bag, an American with an intimate knowledge of the wartime French underground, and a writer of fiction who also is a critic of writers, Guerard humorously regards himself as a "controlled schizophrenic...
Between his shuttling and his studying, Guerard found time to do what he enjoyed most: write fiction. He won a national fiction contest at 15, and began his first novel, The Past Must Alter, when he was a 20-year-old Harvard graduate student. As usual, he drove himself as relentlessly as possible: "I was trying to catch up on Latin, get an M.A., and write my first novel, all at the same time. And those were the days when the graduate students didn't talk to each other; it was a real battle...
...contact with so many people under such tense circumstances, as well as his training in the psychology of warfare and propaganda, probably influenced his life more than any other experience. For the war seems chiefly responsible for the deep interest in people's emotions and behavior that underlies his fiction, his teaching, and his literary criticism. "It was the first big public thing that happened to me," he recalls. "I suppose I'll have to pay for that sin for the rest of my life...
...October Country, by Ray Bradbury. Nineteen stories by a leading horror-and science-fiction practitioner, ranging from satyrs to satire (TIME...
Since 1900 there has been a small body of fiction-good, bad, and abysmal--that has tried to characterize Harvard and the "Harvard man." Just after the turn of the century, when American letters were still strongly influenced by the Genteel outlook, Owen Wister of Virginian fame wrote a short novel entitled Philosophy 4. In this work two fair-haired, hearty, fun-loving, all-American boys, Bertie and Billy, are contrasted to their supercilious, swarthy, second-generation-American tutor, Oscar Maironi. Bertie and Billy are well-rounded, while Oscar is a grind. The story centers around preparation for a final...