Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growled, "but don't prolong the agony." Evelyn Waugh, an old enemy from school days, receives the worst treatment, and for a telling reason. "In our own way we were both snobs," Beaton admits, "and no snob welcomes another who has risen with him." When the novelist dies in 1966, he writes: "So Evelyn Waugh is in his coffin. Died of snobbery...
Despite such intrigues and atmospheres, Yellowfish is no ordinary thriller with grand scenery and exotic characters. Novelist Keeble, 35, a teacher and rancher from Medical Lake, Wash., is out to evoke an entire region. His eastern Washington, "a country of high desert, sage brush, pine, rivers and basalt extrusion," is a palimpsest of Indian legend, the ragged footprints of pioneers and the restless ghosts of Joaquin Miller, Frank Norris and Jack London...
...woman he met half an hour before, and hears in elaborately explicit detail from soup through coffee, how the woman and her husband managed to conquer their sexual incompatibility with the help of a sex therapist. A magazine writer not long ago met the new young husband of Novelist Erica Jong at a party and realized with a disagreeable little jolt that she knew from Jong's novel How to Save Your Own Life just how large the husband's penis...
...Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Sunday described the characteristics of dignity before an audience of 600 at the First Parish Church in Harvard Square...
...This is a dream," he said, blinking at a crowd that included prominent local ministers and novelist John Updike '54. "And now that it's time for me to speak, I have nothing to say--doobie doobie...