Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That Cornwell had two sons, Anthony, an advertising executive in New York City, and David, the best-selling novelist who signs himself John le Carre, is not news. Neither is the literary practice of hanging fiction on a framework of autobiography. What seems unusual is that the normally reticent Le Carre should so openly draw the parallels of his life and his art, as he did recently in a New York Times Magazine article...
...would help him escape his native Swansea, Wales, and "the smug darkness of a provincial town." After one of his poems appeared in a London newspaper, he received a complimentary letter from Pamela Hansford Johnson, a bank clerk and aspiring poet who would later become a well-known novelist. A correspondence developed, during which Thomas assumed the roles of mentor, critic and romantic outlaw...
South African novelist Alan Paton, an outspoken liberal critic of apartheid, once declared: "I am full of joy to realize that I never had anything to do with any divestment campaign." Paton, unlike those who protest today, knows that the divestiture movement rests more on moral outrage than on a sober evaluation of South African realities. Because American disinvestment can so easily harm those whom it ought to help, and because Harvard's financial involvement with repressive regimes hardly begins and ends with South Africa, blanket divestiture would represent the first step into an ethical minefield...
...James is an esteemed mystery novelist whose 1980 book Innocent Blood became a mainstream best seller. Her fictions often center on guilty secrets and the way the past reverberates into the present. In The Maul and the Pear Tree, James applies her narrative and analytic talents to the actual: the Ratcliffe Highway murders that took place in early-l9th century London. Although the seven killings in two merchant households were widely publicized and later inspired Thomas De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," James and her collaborator, Police Historian T.A. Critchley, found that...
...considered one of the most popular and able diplomatic couples in the U.S. capital. The slap was apparently the result of tension over an important guest who did not arrive and of Sondra Gotlieb's belief that Connor had not informed her of the situation. For Gotlieb, a novelist who writes a witty column for the Washington Post satirizing the capital's social scene, it was a mortifying moment. Among her frequent topics: protocol at official events...