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...finally be solved. Discovered in only 30 ft. of water some 4 1/2 miles offshore by a dive team sponsored by novelist Clive Cussler (Raise the Titanic!) in 1995, the Hunley's remains will be hoisted from their muddy grave, if all goes well, in the next few weeks and eventually displayed at the Charleston Museum. That will not only be a splendid feat of underwater salvage but may also offer Civil War buffs an answer to what happened on that fateful night 136 years...
...most winning--and moving--chapters of Eng's tale involve the love that blooms, reciprocally, between the brothers and Adelaide and Sarah Yates. Readers curious about the conjugal gymnastics required during the marriages that ensue will not be disappointed, but Strauss, an impressively skilled and subtle first novelist, devotes a minimum of space to prurient concerns. The double wedding is the novel's high point, with the words of the preacher--"Eternal Jesus, that joinest them together that were separate"--gaining new meaning in the context. Eng looks at his bride and wonders, "How did I believe I could...
...former director of Harvard's Expository Writing program, a Reformation scholar and an acclaimed novelist, Richard C. Marius died at his home in Belmont on Nov. 5 from pancreatic cancer...
This month the ninth and 10th volumes in the 1 1/2-year-old series will appear: historian Douglas Brinkley's Rosa Parks and novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick's Herman Melville. Atlas' original notion--short biographies by great writers--may have been tinged with a little inspired hyperbole, but as general editor he has overseen the production of short biographies (roughly 200 pages each) by some very good writers indeed, including Garry Wills (on Saint Augustine), Larry McMurtry (on Crazy Horse) and Mary Gordon (on Joan of Arc). All the authors were paid advances from $50,000 to $100,000, and those...
DIED. DAME BARBARA CARTLAND, 98, best-selling romance novelist whose 723 books sold more than 1 billion copies worldwide; in Hertfordshire, England. Cartland published her first novel in 1925, was dubbed the queen of romance fiction and became beloved for creating virginal heroines in rococo plotlines. Her ability to write a novel a week, dictating to secretaries while reclining on a sofa, earned her a glamorous, bejeweled lifestyle, a host of pink gowns and a bit part in a real-life rococo drama: step-grandmother to Princess Diana...