Word: memoirist
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...because of his ghastly smile, returns as a volunteer fireman to avenge himself with a carefully misdirected extinguisher on the house that rejected him. On an idyllic holiday in Wales, little Sylvia and a friend come terrifyingly close to burying another child in the sand. With chilling serenity the memoirist comments, "Children driven good are apt to be driven...
DIED. Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 64, nephew of Author W. Somerset Maugham and, as "Robin" Maugham, a prolific novelist, playwright and memoirist in his own right (Somerset and All the Maughams, Conversations with Willie); in Brighton, England...
...Actor and Memoirist Dirk Bogarde (A Postillion Struck by Lightning, Snakes and Ladders) sketches matters in this remarkably deft and moving first novel. It was a bad time and place to draw garrison duty, as he himself learned when, as a young officer who had fought in Europe with British army intelligence, he was posted to the Dutch East Indies...
Companion-in-arms to Indian fighters, writer-memoirist, painter laureate of the Old West, Frederic Remington is the subject of this one-man show. Playwright Aranha's personality portrait breathes with a sense of the untamed times of Remington's youth...
Garson Kanin, playwright (Born Yesterday), novelist (The Rat Race) and Hollywood memoirist, is wooden in his overall structure but energetic in his scenes. The Fatty Arbuckle party that led to his sex scandal, trial, ruin and censorship; Greta Garbo's slow but sure rise to stardom amid the "ah-rintch" groves, and the pandemoniac search for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara. Much space is devoted to a novelization of the rise and fall of Marilyn Monroe. Farber's conclusion: Hollywood did not kill her; "it was just a case of bad luck, mismanagement...