Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARRIED. Carl Sagan, 46, astronomer, best-selling author (The Dragons of Eden, Broca 's Brain) and host of the PBS-TV series Cosmos; and Ann Druyan, 31, novelist and co-writer of the Cosmos series; he for the third time, she for the first; in Los Angeles. Sagan, who last March divorced his second wife Linda after twelve years of marriage, wrote in the dedication of the book version of Cosmos: "It is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie...
...always so. In Lost in America, Singer recalls the mid-'30s, when he left his native Poland for the Promised City, New York, N.Y. Obscured by the reputation of his expatriate older brother, Novelist I.J. Singer, Isaac becomes a stateless wanderer, at home...
...mildly neurotic M & M addict who, when he is not worrying about his weight (200 Ibs.), frets he will be unable to write and that no one will think he is funny. He is happiest when he is sitting in front of a screen, large or small. Says Novelist Ann Beattie (Falling in Place), a close friend from college days: "He considers a day of work going to two screenings. Then he goes out to a movie, and when he comes home he turns on a late movie...
...happened to him while he was rising in the busi ness world: "I got pretty damn good." Chicago Realty Mogut Evangeline Gouletas awards herself an ovation on the eve of marrying Governor Hugh Carey of New York: "In Chicago, they love me. In Chicago, I am already First Lady." Novelist Gore Vidal confides why the New York Times published a favorable review of his new book Creation: "They're desperate for me to write for them...
Sources close to the Board of Overseers' Standing Committee on Honorary Degrees said yesterday that the list of recipients included a French woman, prompting speculation that the novelist Simone Well, president of the European Parliament, or Marguerite Yourcenar will receive an honorary. Yourcenar was recently elected to the Academie Francaise, the first woman ever to be honored by that center of the French intellectual establishment...