Word: novelists
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...This is not simply modesty but the recognition that his progress came by way of a number of steps that made no particular sense when he took them. There is a circular irony to Turow's triumph: he finally became what he had always wanted to be -- a successful novelist -- by admitting failure and taking up a profession. The renunciation of his dream, and a lot of hard work along the way, eventually helped the dream come true...
...academic front, Turow was a dedicated free spirit. "I wasn't a great student," he says. "I was nominally an English major. I was trying to figure out how to become a novelist. I wrote a lot, and I read a lot." He recalls "drinking in" Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet and being "overwhelmed by" Robert Stone's first novel, A Hall of Mirrors. He also fell under the influence of a visiting teacher, the short-story writer Tillie Olsen. "She took me seriously as a writer, and I'm enormously grateful...
When senior writer Paul Gray sat down with Scott Turow in his law office in Chicago's Sears Tower, Gray found the best-selling novelist friendly but also rather circumspect. "He is, after all, an attorney," says Gray. "He measures his words carefully." But when the venue shifted to the comfortable writing den in Turow's home, half-an-hour's train ride away, conversation loosened up. "When we talked about literature, the enthusiasm bubbled up," says Gray. "Turow gets extremely animated when he talks about writers. It was like a college session, with two instructors getting together over...
...have finally got to that point where Kingsley Amis can be introduced as Martin Amis' father. For those who have forgotten, he was the most talented satirist among Britain's angry young men of the 1950s. He is also the novelist who has kept the sharpest edge through the '60s, '70s and '80s. Class and sex wars are his specialties, and he is a scarred veteran of both. Harry Caldecote, the retired librarian in Amis' 20th novel, The Folks That Live on the Hill, should be beyond all that fiddle. "He had taken an early retirement deal just ahead...
That afternoon Roemer had read aloud a favorite passage from novelist John Fowles' book The Aristos: "In the whole, nothing is unjust. It may, to this or that individual, be unfortunate." So, in a sense, is capital punishment for both the condemned man and the Governor, who waited for word from Angola Prison that Dalton Prejean had died...