Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Very nice for the early '50s, only Huxley was not wearing gray flannel but blue denim. As he explained to a friend, his wife had made him change his pants in the manuscript because "she thought I ought to be better dressed for my readers...
Lord Rochester's Monkey is the biography of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-1680). The book was finished in 1934, but Greene's publisher rejected his manuscript and he just forgot about it. With all due respect for Greene's talents as a novelist, he should have left the manuscript in the library at Texas University, or better yet, he should have burned it. It's an interesting biography, but only insofar as Rochester is an intriguing character; Greene's style and his organizing abilities aren't capable of sustaining a work that brings together Rochester's life...
...distracted doctor and inoffensive scribbler we'd like him to be. We owe these revelations to Nicholas Meyer (evidently a hack on the rise, he wrote 400 film reviews for his college paper) who had the good fortune to be in the right place when Watson's last manuscript surfaced in a London attic 31 years after it left Dr. Watson's control...
Kearns is now completing a "psychohistory" of Johnson, which senior members of the Government Department read in manuscript form before recommending her for tenure...
...movie. While traveling, he also found time to bat out the first draft of a novel. The main character is a handsome California Congressman who battles evil politicians and braves a confrontation with militarists. "There's no doubt that it's worth putting more time into the manuscript," says Lindsay's agent, Owen Laster, who is showing the book to New York publishers. Evidently the ex-mayor has a deft touch when it comes to mixing passion and politics. "There's a nice massage scene," reports one reader of Lindsay's draft...