Word: novelist
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...democracy with an eerily clairvoyant eye. Half a century later came Lord Bryce, whose American Commonwealth (1888) still runs a respectable second. But the visitors have rarely been that wise or objective. The interpretation of America has always been a species of self-discovery-and self-indulgence. The English novelist E.M. Forster said that America is like life because "you can usually find in it what you look for." A man did not even have to be there to conjure up the promise and marvel; from dark, medieval Prague, Kafka imagined his Amerika. He believed that everyone there always, invariably...
...enough when California courts ordered Novelist Gwen Davis and her publisher, Doubleday, to pay $75,000 last April to Hollywood Psychologist Paul Bindrim. He said he was defamed by Touching, Davis' 1971 novel involving an encounter group whose gig is communal nudity in warm pools. Now Davis, 45, feels doubly wronged: Doubleday has sued her for some $138,000, which includes legal costs, the money Bindrim won and interest. Several authors' groups and a number of writers, among them Irving Wallace, Gore Vidal and Joan Didion, have criticized the publisher for turning on one of its authors...
...similar suits involving other works of fiction, which in the past have rarely been the targets of libel actions. The Supreme Court's decision to let the ruling stand, argues Vidal, is thus in effect "a hunting license, a declaration of open season on almost any sort of novelist...
...ever since the elite 40-member Académie Française was established by Cardinal Richelieu in 1634 to uphold France's literary standards, it has barred its doors to women. But now the "Immortals" have voted to breach France's macho line by admitting Novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, 76, author of Hadrian's Memoirs and acclaimed translator of Henry James and Virginia Woolf. Though Yourcenar holds U.S. as well as French citizenships and has lived in Maine for 30 years, what bothered the twelve who opposed her was principally her gender. Philosopher Jean Guitton, 78, grumbled...
...prize stop for the rich, titled and famous. For Maugham it was a closet as big as the Ritz, where he could work and pursue his pleasures. Near the end of his life the house became the scene of jealousies, conflict and intrigue. In 1962 the 88-year-old novelist adopted Searle, 58, as his son. Daughter Liza challenged the relationship in court and won. Father and daughter had other legal problems. The previous year, Maugham had auctioned his art collection for nearly $1.5 million. Many of the paintings had been bought in Liza's name and she sued...