Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Africa never ceases to amaze." So wrote V.S. Naipaul in A Bend in the River, and last week, true to the novelist's assessment, Africa amazed again. As recently as a fortnight ago, Nigerian President Alhaji Shehu Shagari, 58, was being hailed as the enlightened leader of black Africa's most populous and, in many ways, most promising democracy. Several days later, he was under detention in Lagos, while Major General Mohammed Buhari, 41, organizer of a coup that deposed Shagari, was proclaiming to his countrymen that the armed forces had saved the nation from "total collapse...
...signed herself, had come home briefly from Europe to receive the Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died the following year, at age 75, in Zurich, within a circle of admirers and close to Bryher, nee Annie Winifred Ellerman, the energetic heiress and novelist (The Fourteenth of October) who had been her lover and benefactor for more than 40 years...
...Frank Deford Viking; 196 pages; $13.95 Many of us have convinced ourselves that children don't die anymore, not in the latter half of the 20th century, not in the United States of America, and certainly not in the suburbs." But of course they do, as Journalist and Novelist Frank Deford piercingly recounts in this spare and vivid eulogy to his daughter Alexandra, "Alex," who died in 1980 of cystic fibrosis...
...Down East Disney keeps his word processor clicking at a phenomenal rate. He has just finished collaborating with fellow Horror Novelist Peter Straub (Ghost Story) on a fantasy novel called The Talisman. After that comes a new collection of short stories, and a lengthy monster opus called IT is in the works. Says Straub: "Steve is a workaholic who wouldn't be happy if he wasn't writing...
Iris Murdoch, 64, British novelist: "The only people in the world I am envious of are those with pools, especially heated ones...