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...your story on the Manufacturers Hanover Corp.'s annual report [March 29], you twice identify me as a novelist-without, however, citing the titles of any of my novels. That would have been difficult. Of the 20-odd books I have had published (most recently Jock: The Life and Times of John Hay Whitney), every one has been a work of nonfiction...
...mayors whose name is in the telephone book (his number: 63 3147). And his constituents are perfectly likely to call him at 3 a.m. His wife Tamar is used to such disturbances. She has been married to Kollek for nearly 45 years (they have a son, Amos, 34, a novelist, and a daughter, Osnat, 21, a student at Hebrew University...
...line where the waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans meet and merge. But don't look for it; the island exists only in the febrile imaginings of Gerald Durrell. The author of some 15 nature and travel books is unlikely to threaten the reputation of his brother Novelist Lawrence Durrell (The Alexandria Quartet). But there is a sting in his tale of The Mockery Bird, and a pawky satire familiar to viewers of such politi cal cartoons as The Mouse That Roared...
...tradition of anthropological and literary studies of single American towns as microcosms of the national condition--particularly Robert and Helen Lynd's work on Muncie. Indiana and Sherwood Anderson's imagined Winesbury, Ohio--Davis conceived Hometown as the latest of these metaphorical excursions. But Davis is neither anthropologist nor novelist...
...Connecticut. Ah, the tranquillity and the clean air-not to mention the attraction of living in a state with no income tax-that have made happy, settled residents of such literary luminaries as Playwright Arthur Miller, 61; Journalist Theodore H. White, 66, and his wife, Historian Beatrice K. Hofstadter; Novelist and Poet Robert Penn Warren, 76, and his wife, Writer Eleanor Clark; Author William Styron, 56; Humorist Peter De Vries, 62; Writer Harrison Salisbury, 73; and Novelist Philip Roth, 49. Agghhh, the newly passed unincorporated business tax, a temporary, two-year, 5% levy on unincorporated businesses in Connecticut that gross...