Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supply of Latinisms, literary allusions and intricate analogies, the pugnaciously polysyllabic Buckley wrote almost half the magazine himself in those early days. He also sought out aspiring young writers, not all of them conservatives. New Yorker Writer Renata Adler published some of her first articles for N.R., as did Novelist Joan Didion, Syndicated Columnist Garry Wills and New York Times Critic John Leonard. Says Leonard, hired...
Anthony Burgess's versatility is indisputable. He is a novelist, playwright, composer and linguist, as well as a critic whose dissenting views on modern culture have frequently boiled over into newspapers and magazines. But Burgess, 63, is no club Tory grumbling behind his Times and Spectator. He is a rugged, independent Christian humanist who confronts an age that has depersonalized and secularized his values. Such novels as The Doctor Is Sick, Devil of a State and A Clockwork Orange are not only cautionary satires but examples of Burgess's flair for Joycean wordplay and knack for turning...
...Warren is a Rhodes scholar, a classicist, and the South's answer to Robert Frost. He is swapping reunion talk with two other farm hands from central casting, Psychologist Lyle Hicks Lanier and Novelist Andrew Nelson Lytle. These three men are all that is left of a famous band of twelve Southerners, a lot of them poets, a lot of them from Vanderbilt, who 50 years ago published an alternately brilliant and baffling manifesto called I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition...
...Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Heinrich Boll and 133 other prominent Europeans publicly petitioned Rome to ease up in its objections to married priests, birth control, divorce and mixed marriage (47% of German Catholics now marry outside their faith). Here and there on the tour picketers protested about abortion and birth control, or held such placards as Frauen zum Altar (women to the altar). At the Pope's last stop, Barbara Engl, speaking for Munich's Catholic youth league, attacked the church for constant "prohibitions" on "friendship, sexuality and partnership...
That desire has made L'Amour a millionaire. Like one of his protagonists, the novelist lives virtuously, if not primitively, with his wife of 24 years and their two teenage children. Their Spanish-style mansion in Los Angeles, just off Sunset Boulevard, contains a reference library of some 8,000 volumes within its walls. L'Amour is secretive about his age; published estimates put him in his early 70s, but he has the look and vigor of a man much younger, turning out three novels a year with metronomic regularity. He shuns the Hollywood party circuit...