Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commissioner, a girl who throws like Sandy Koufax and the demolition of a housing project to make way for the old stadium, resurrected brick by brick. When installed, the once and future team manages to win the pennant. But not the World Series. Ritz is a skilled and witty novelist, but he realizes that even in fantasy some dreams remain impossible...
DIED. Pamela Hansford Johnson, 69, British novelist, critic and playwright and the wife of Scientist-Novelist C.P. Snow for 30 years until his death in 1980; in London. A full-time writer from the age of 22, Johnson turned out 27 novels, the last, A Bonfire, to be published in the U.S. next month. Though her books did not sell as well as those written by Snow, her second husband, critics praised them for satirical wit and deft malice...
...survive to bear witness to these unspeakable happenings? In his moving introduction to her book, the German Nobel-prizewinning novelist Heinrich Böll notes that though many shared Ginzburg's experience, "very few can narrate it, even fewer can write about it, and it is these few who transform personal experience into testimony." Ginzburg tells us that her book was the "main object" of her life in captivity. Like Solzhenitsyn she committed names, facts and events to memory by incorporating them into long rhymed poems that she could more easily memorize...
...people. In Kolyma, mother and son found a means of communicating with each other by reciting poetry during their first night together. Those lines, she recalls, were "a bulwark against the inhumanity of the real world ... a form of resistance." Vasya (who grew up to be the brilliant Russian novelist Vasili Aksyonov) told her "Now I understand what a mother is ... you can recite your favorite verses to her and if you stop she will go on from the line where you left...
Boarding with his brother in the U.S., Isaac hears the novelist railing, "All life in America keeps constantly changing. How can such a nation create a real literature...