Word: novelists
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DEATH REVEALED. CARLOS CASTANEDA, believed to be 72, enigmatic personality who was either an unfairly vilified anthropologist or a wildly inventive novelist, depending on whether his mind-bending encounters with a Yaqui Indian sorcerer are taken as fact or fiction; who died on April 27; of liver failure; in Los Angeles. An anthropology grad student at UCLA, Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge in 1968, the first of many accounts of his apprenticeship to Mexican shaman Don Juan. Readers soaked the books up, even though critics thought Don Juan was just a figment...
...charity. This year, when the charities called, "we told 'em to call Montpelier--all that money went to Act 60 taxes," says owner Ron Bauer. Even angrier are affluent parents who moved to postage-stamp towns in part for the excellent schools. "This is Marxism," howls novelist John Irving, whose son is a Dorset kindergartner. "It's leveling everything by decimating what works... It's that vindictive 'We've suffered, and now we're going to take money from your kid and watch you squirm...
Beat Generation novelist and icon William S. Burroughs '36 died Aug. 2, in Lawrence, Kans., of a heart attack...
LONDON: What do novelist Jeffrey Archer, Oscar-winning actress Glenda Jackson and Virgin entrepreneur Richard Branson have in common? Answer: They all have the opportunity to fulfill their dream to become the first Lord Mayor of London elected by a popular vote, after the British capital voted late Thursday in favor of having one. Another thing they have in common -- Londoners don?t want them...
...come. Almost 100 years after his death, in a multimedia postmortem comeback spearheaded by a Broadway play and a feature film (both British imports that hit U.S. shores this week) and including countless books and websites, Oscar Wilde, the infamously persecuted--some say martyred--gay Irish playwright, poet and novelist, is threatening to become the aesthete's Elvis...