Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Graham Greene, 76, novelist, on the effects of age: "When one was young, one wrote a book in nine months. It was like a child, always nine months. Now it takes three years...
...award to John Kennedy Toole for A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole was unable to get his comic novel about New Orleans published and died in 1969, an apparent suicide at the age of 31. For ten years, his mother tried to find someone to bring out the book. Finally Novelist Walker Percy read it and persuaded the Louisiana State University Press to publish it last year...
Francine du Plessix Gray, novelist, on writer's block: "Being a Catholic, I think it's one of the seven deadly sins...
...critical and commercial acclaim that greeted Kinflicks (1976) subjected Novelist Lisa Alther, 36, to just that question. The answer: She does pretty much the same thing over again, except that she does more of it and better. Kinflicks followed a single heroine from her Tennessee upbringing through a series of wacky encounters up North with the countercultures of the '60s. Original Sins quintuples its predecessor, offering five main characters, all Southerners, who try to grow up in a region and a country that are changing even faster than they...
DIED. Caroline Gordon, 85, Kentucky-born novelist and critic who stringently portrayed traditional Southern life in such carefully crafted, often autobiographical books as None Shall Look Back (1937) and The Malefactors (1956); in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico...