Word: giftedness
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Already long famous as one of Britain's most versatile and gifted writers (her Lolly Willowes was the first selection of the fledgling Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926), Author Warner turned to writing short stories exclusively in 1954. This baker's dozen of new stories shows...
Stolpe supports the view of others close to him that Hammarskjöld, gifted with a fine mind and prodigious energies, was tormented by a profound and inviolable loneliness. Stolpe believes that this alienation from people around him can be traced to Hammarskjöld's childhood.
St.-John Perse (Seamarks) was born on an islet off Guadeloupe. Edgar Mittelholzer (Shadows Move Among Them) came from British Guiana. V. S. Naipaul (A House for Mr. Biswas) grew up in Trinidad. George Lamming (In the Castle of My Skin) is a Barbadian. In the last generation, a torrent...
If they are gifted, young writers suffer the indignity of being compared to somebody else. So it was with Australian-born Shirley Hazzard when a collection of her short stories was published in 1963. As evocative as but perhaps less crisp than the young Katherine Mansfield? An ear for dialogue...
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU has been restored to Broadway with loving care and craft by the gifted APA repertory company. The comic zaniness of the Sycamore family is a delight, and an unforeseen bonus is the tender re-creation of the '30s as a golden...