Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...each), plus 2,800,000 in a Reader's Digest condensation. On Broadway, Producers Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr plan to stage Advise and Consent next autumn. Counting the Preminger deal, Drury could gross more than $500,000 from his book. At week's end New Novelist Drury announced he would resign from the Times, to write more books and become the Reader's Digest Washington Correspondent...
...Novelist Albert Camus (The Plague, The Fall...
Laotian solidarity, he also practiced it. He had 25 wives (though only the Queen was called wife), and the number of his children was reckoned from the official 38 to a less official 100. Once, Novelist W. Somerset Maugham wrote about his royal neighbor on the Riviera: "Whenever the King is in his residence, which is a pretty villa next to mine, there always seem to be at least 70 people staying with him-all of them children...
...state pen almost as familiar a setting as Tombstone-the hostages with shivs at their throats, the leader in the besieged cell block on the phone to the warden, the Spartacus-in-denims who invariably fails to make it out of stir. Giving the old plot a new twist, Novelist William Wiegand (who teaches creative writing at Stanford) has produced a tale of a prison riot that is at once a violent melodrama, a psychological quiz and a political morality play...
...These things happen in all progressive movements," muses the habitual criminal, Kinney, and there is gruesome comedy in Pryor's hypocritical proclamation of "a new era of sound interrelationships between inmate and administration in the prisons of America." Novelist Wiegand has effectively told a prickly parable of power and evil, but offers no solutions. He leaves Narrator Sharon with a new "case load," and with everything at dear old S.S.P.C. back to abnormal...