Word: novelists
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...bumps into an immediate obstacle: Phipps is not to be found at the house where Maggs' money installed him. So the convict takes an expedient job as a footman at the house next door, the better to spot Phipps when he returns. Very quickly--Carey mimes perfectly the Victorian novelist's skill at making the implausible seem inevitable--Maggs comes to the attention of one of his master's dinner guests, the rising young author Tobias Oates. When Maggs, serving the wine, collapses from the pain of a tic douloureux in his cheek, Oates volunteers to relieve the servant...
Harrison (daughter of novelist Jim Harrison) is something of an anomaly herself: a mystery writer who's not only literate and handy with a plot but possessed of a voice and a vision as well. Her off-the-cuff eloquence and easy sarcasm remind one of a small-town courthouse wit, loitering on the steps with a cigarette, flipping digs at starchy passersby. Her supporting characters and assorted suspects, from a snippety lady historian to a blowsy, big-boned social worker, aren't merely fictional head shots. They have body. Stuck way out on the windy plains together, their passions...
...knowledge, Henry James the novelist never attended Harvard College, and his only formal education was a brief stint at Harvard Law School when he was 19. (In 1899, when he graduated from college, according to the article, he was 56.) Were law students involved with The Crimson at that time, or is this a different Henry James you're talking about? HILLARY N. STEVENS...
...editors respond: Although graduate students have worked for The Crimson, the novelist Henry James was not a president of the newspaper. Another man with the same name held the position...
...Files," but the show's producer, Chris Carter, wasn't blown away by it. "Chris is a real gentleman, but basically he came back to me and said, 'This isn't what we wanted,"' King told TV Guide. Carter wanted King to make the story creepier, and the novelist took another couple of stabs at it. But in the end Carter ended up doing a rewrite himself. The episode airs...