Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...welcome the prodigal's return. Often the child who left home a bothersome teen returns a helpful adult who can also provide engaging companionship. Susanna Kaplan, 23, a physical-education major at Boston University, moved back to the Cambridge, Mass., home of her parents, Author Justin Kaplan and Novelist Anne Bernays, after four years of study and work. The family agrees that since Susanna has matured they all get along better than ever. Says Mother Anne: "Susanna has a powerful personality, but this is a very big house...
...want novels to begin on page one," novelist John Irving told a Lowell House audience last night. "I have a 20th century impatience...
Stripped of its Whitmanesque rhetoric, this means the fixture as before: first person singularities from the prominent (Miss U.S.A., Ted Turner, Joan Crawford, Arnold Schwarzenegger), the recognizable (Baseball Maverick Bill Veeck, Novelist Jill Robinson, Rolling Stone Publisher Jann Wenner) and the totally obscure. All of them are highly individual, all discuss some aspect of that worn shibboleth, the American Dream. As they talk, platitudes give way to testimony, and the vision becomes a document...
DIED. John Howard Griffin, 60, novelist who in 1959 used chemicals and ultraviolet light to change the pigment of his skin temporarily from white to black, then walked, bused and hitchhiked through the South and wrote about his experiences in Black Like Me; of complications arising from diabetes; in Fort Worth. His book, published in 1961, stirred consciences throughout the U.S., sold more than 1 million copies and was made into a movie...
...somehow it is not performing up to par, despite the technological conveniences it manifests. Only once does he shift the blame for Still Life to himself, only once does he acknowledge the lone clear message conveyed by his prose--only once does he refer to himself as "an underdeveloped novelist with an overdeveloped typewriter." Yet he does take the poor machine out of it agony for the last half of the epilogue; he writes the "mystery of love" section in longhand. At least that last desperate gesture lends credence to his first sentence--emphatically, it couldn't be done...