Word: fictioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serene character, in immediate contact with nature and life." All through his boyhood in a poor quarter of Paris he sees pictures in his head; all through his adult life he translates these pictures into paintings. His life is a variety of religious experience-scarcely an exciting subject for fiction. Simenon nevertheless discovers a shimmering excitement in the subject. He sets up two poles of vitality-a creative genius and the seething slum he inhabits-and then calmly records the patterns that propagate between them...
...FICTION 1. The Source, Michener (1 last week) 2. Airs Above the Ground, Stewart...
...last piece of fiction, "The Sentimental Journey of Arthur Friedberg," is simply clumsy and banal. David Ansen blows a paragraph of dull theme into several pages of dull plot...
...engaged in research with a base at the University Health Services. He also teaches a section of Professor Erik Erikson's undergraduate course, "The Human Life Cycle." His office is in the basement of a nondescript Harvard building. It is filled with books from the social sciences, poetry, and fiction, and the walls are covered with pictures of Southern school children and migrant workers. He writes more articles, of consistently high quality, than any man I know...
...that vintage, but now Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan, 44, has taken up a career that might fascinate her father. Scottie is writing about Washington society types, vintage 1965, for the New York Times. The trouble is that while Fitzgerald could sit down and wonderfully invent his parties in fiction, his daughter now has to track down all the gossip at balls and blasts. "Sometimes it's embarrassing," says she. "When you're asked to a real fancy one, the hostess doesn't want you to write about...