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Only 39, Glyn Maxwell is an accomplished poet, being likened to W.H. Auden and Robert Frost. He is the Somerset Maugham Prize and the E. M. Forester Prize, and The Breakage is on the T.S. Eliot Prize shortlist for 1998. Now a professor at Amherst College, Maxwell was born in Hertfordshire, England. His British heritage, apparent in his writing, dominates many of his poems concerned with historical events in English history or merely sprinkles his other poetry with British lingo and allusions...
NAME: PETER ("I'M NOT A SIMPSON") BART OCCUPATION: Editor, Variety BEST PUNCH: In his new book, The Gross, the Hits, the Flops, claims Beatty lifted the idea for the film Bulworth from works by Somerset Maugham and Jules Verne...
...WINNERS Maugham and Verne. When was the last time they got any publicity...
...have only one mild word of protest. I am not, as you have twice stated in your columns, the original, or part-original, of Larry in Maugham's The Razor's Edge. I can stand a good deal of kidding from my friends, but this rumor has poisoned my life for the past six months, and I wish it would die as quickly as possible. CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Santa Monica, Calif...
...birthday on April 23, when he turned 29; his lawyers gave him two flannel shirts and a box of Peppermint Patties. He spends most of his time in jail reading the piles of mail he receives. He also reads books. Last month it was W. Somerset Maugham's The Razor's Edge, and he is now finishing Man's Fate by Andre Malraux. A book about a young man's spiritual quest and one about revolutionaries--McVeigh must be taking both seriously...