Word: fictions
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...first of four novels about gumshoe Isabelle Dalhousie, "a fairly intellectual Edinburgh lady who has a daughter with unsuitable boyfriends." (He says that, in this case, he is not writing from experience.) McCall Smith didn't set out to become a one-man fiction factory; like destiny or a good plot, it just happened. How does it feel? Mma Ramotswe knows. "I must remember," she says, "how fortunate I am in this life." His sentiments exactly...
After teaching creative writing at the University of Chicago, Princeton, University of Iowa and the University of Pennsylvania, he retired in 1992 but has continued to publish fiction...
Golden says his achievement was greeted with enthusiasm and, for some, a sense of relief that his foray into fiction had met with success...
...writer, even a writer of fiction, and maybe even especially a writer of fiction, has an obligation to the truth,” he says...
...young man with literary aspirations, who published a collection of humor and fiction in 1980 called Off Track, eventually sat on a governor’s blue-ribbon commission on horse racing...