Word: mallon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mallon, the most important misconception scholars have about fiction writing is the notion of "the agony of writing...
...Mallon, who wrote two non-fiction works before publishing his novel, says fiction writing is not a planned process because things "just sailed into my head." Mallon says he likes to describe fiction writing as "like cooking in Warsaw--whatever you can scrape up out of your mind...
...fact, Mallon says he never intended to be realistic about things. He changed building and course names to suit his plot and intentionally made his characters "cartoonish." And he says he was amused when he visited his publisher's office and saw the copy editor use a map of Harvard to assure that the characters did not cross imaginary intersections...
...exaggeration and somewhat cavalier regard for reality that Mallon displays in Arts and Sciences help to brighten a novel with a potentially depressing theme. Mallon says his novel is "really intended as light entertainment." "There's a great element of silliness in the book," but that "does seem to go along with the territory...
...Mallon says he had not visited Harvard since his graduation in 1978 at the time he wrote the novel but relied entirely on memory for his description He says he is currently working on a book about the history of plagiarism and has begun "nibbling" on a novel based on his childhood...