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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar character, and fictitious dialogue, to report a speech at New York University by Nobel-Prizewinning Poet Czeslaw Milosz. Reid's explanation: using a fictional persona helped him overcome writer's block. Personae, such as "our man Stanley," and pseudonyms, such as the railroad buff "E.M. Frimbo," are common devices in "Talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Embroidering the Facts | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

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