Word: novelists
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...There's still a sense of family and real community," says Andrew Lytle, novelist and English professor emeritus. Almost all 1,000 students are from middle-or upper-class families. About 80% of them are from the South; of those, 25% are from Tennessee. Nearly a third of the 250-member class of 1982 had brothers, fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers and a few sisters who preceded them to Sewanee (women were not admitted until 1969). Says Dean W. Brown Patterson: "The remarkable thing is that the students are opposed to changes. They are the most conservative element we have...
...sometime novelist (Entertaining Strangers, The Gospel According to Joe) and television scriptwriter (an adaptation for PBS of the John Cheever story O Youth and Beauty!), Gurney is writing a play that he hopes will take on bigger and more tragic proportions than his 16 slight, mostly short stage works to date. Says he: "When I start writing a script, it always seems serious. But some how the pratfalls sneak in, and then I fight to keep them." His upbringing, he believes, has provided more than simply the raw material of his scripts: "I think it was the very fact that...
...Norman Mailer, bestselling novelist and social critic, was charged with owing $80,000 in taxes and penalties for 1976 and 1977. When he could not pay, the IRS seized his house in Provincetown, Mass., which was valued at $135,000, and auctioned...
...more than 20 years, Novelist and Naturalist Peter Matthiessen has been a powerful voice crying in, and about, the wilderness. With unruffled grace he has defended threatened species such as the African rhino (Sand Rivers) and a Stone Age tribe in New Guinea (Under the Mountain Wall), whose territory is being claimed by industrialized societies. In his 15th book, however, the author explores a tragedy closer to home. The territory is the Great Plains, and the endangered species is the American Indian...
...aspiring novelist defends his drug activities as research...