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...Helms began a correspondence with the exiled novelist in 1973, which Solzhenitsyn carried on, Helms says, "at a little Russian typewriter with scratch-outs, just like...
...Jane's illness: "If you were to devise how best to undermine the mind of a writer, you couldn't think of a better means than this." She lingered on through cycles of recovery and deterioration for over 15 years, witnessing the success of Paul as a novelist - not missing out, it seemed, on a single turn of the screw. As her final humiliation, she wound up in a psychiatric clinic in Malaga...
...Munro, except for some biographical notes by his sister Ethel, almost nothing was known. A.J. Langguth, 48, a novelist and an ex-New York Times correspondent in Saigon, now offers the first full biography. As biographer-critic, he proves knowing, balanced and blessedly brief...
...Stanley Elkin, he responded ecstatically to the new work. Wrote Robbins in a report to his bosses: "A major novel about a wonderfully eccentric mother and son, very funny and very moving at the same time. Sure to be the 'breakthrough' book by an immensely talented novelist in his mid-30s." His faith in Irving was backed by a $20,000 advance-plus $150,000 on a next book, sight unseen...
DIED. Anita Loos, 88, pert, witty screenwriter, playwright and novelist who became an international celebrity after the publication of her 1925 spoof of sex and materialism, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; in New York City. A former child actress, Loos sold her first film scenario to D.W. Griffith in 1912, thus beginning a four-decade Hollywood career that ranged from devising captions for silent films (a form she invented) to creating sparkling dialogue for such movies as San Francisco (1936) and The Women (1939). A diminutive (4 ft. 11 in.), tirelessly convivial figure who considered boredom "a more acute pain than...