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The trouble with Jane Somers' first novel, The Diary of a Good Neighbor, was not that it was poorly reviewed but that it was scarcely reviewed at all. The few critics who noticed the book liked it, but Somers, identified on the book jacket as the pseudonym of a...
Lessing, 64, author of such works as The Golden Notebook and Briefing for a Descent into Hell, is one of the most serious and protean writers in the world. Why did she stop at the height of her career to play the prankster? Her intent, as she explains in the...
The contemporary setting and realistic style of The Diary of a Good Neighbor-the memoir of a successful middle-aged magazine editor who befriends a lonely old woman-seem to have fooled nearly everyone. The manuscript was first sent incognito to two of Lessing's British publishers. Both rejected...
Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers and Reporter Gertraud Lessing mushed after the Alpine skiers, while Eastern Europe Bureau Chief John Moody found himself learning all he could about the new Soviet bobsled. Atlanta Correspondent B.J. Phillips is an expert on figure skating, but last week she drew on her experience in...
Reported by Gertraud Lessing and William Rademaekers/Sarajevo