Word: novelist
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Richard C. Marius, the former director of Harvard's Expository Writing program, a Reformation scholar and an acclaimed novelist, died at his home in Belmont on Friday from pancreatic cancer...
...slightly misshapen circle. Budnitz struggles to weave multiple narratives into a unifying whole, but the sense of centripetal completion fails as each new voice grows more allied with the increasingly amorphous world inside Budnitz's novel. Still, Budnitz has more than answered the requirements of techniques that a good novelist ought to engage. Thus, one can only hope that If I Told You Once, will have a twice, for Budnitz has the skills of a tremendous writer, and round two could be a knockout...
Rather than make such bald judgments herself, Thurman sets forth her subject's contradictions in a historically sensitive, prodigiously researched biography that has more than a soupcon of modern psychological theory thrown in. Understandably, Thurman occasionally gets lost in the thicket of claims, counterclaims and feuds that envelops the novelist. But who would not? The sphinxlike Colette, inscrutable mistress of her domain, would not have had it any other...
DIED. NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 99, experimental novelist whose book Tropisms (1939) jump-started the Roman Nouveau move ment; in Cherence, France. She ignored traditional approaches to plot and character, focusing on fleeting human reactions she called "movements...on the border of our consciousness...
DIED. MORRIS WEST, 83, novelist whose characers struggled with faith and outlandish plots; in Sydney, Australia. Critics were unimpressed with his books--The Devil's Advocate and The Shoes of the Fisherman among them--but West sold 60 million books worldwide...