Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advantage of having Ph.Ds is that they'reused to doing analytical writing," says formerExpos teacher Laura Otis, herself a Ph.D incomparative literature. "I wonder about someonewho's a novelist teaching writing to people. Isthat going to help them on a history of philosophyessay...
...laureate is Rita Dove, a black woman who calls herself a spiritual heir of Wheatley's, and whose verses appeal not only to the senses but also to the imagination and the intellect. Moreover, Dove does her work on Jefferson's own turf. She lives with her husband, German novelist Fred Viebahn, and their 10-year-old daughter Aviva on a wooded hillside near Charlottesville, Virginia, a 15-minute drive from Monticello. She teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia, which Jefferson founded. And last week she made her public debut as poet laureate by reading from her passionately...
Other celebrities in attendance at the bash, held at the Boston Public Library, included former Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, Senator Edward M. Kennedy `54-'56, novelist Robertson Davies and actress Angie Dickinson...
...could possibly replace such an institution? Various names were bruited in the rumor mill -- stage actors, a few Hollywood eminences, novelist John Updike. But the winner turned out to be a dark horse: Pulitzer-prizewinning memoirist and New York Times columnist Russell Baker, 68, who originally declined the offer by saying, "I don't want to be the man who succeeds Alistair Cooke. I want to be the man who succeeds the man who succeeds Alistair Cooke." Baker was won over by the zeal of Christopher Lydon, a newscaster at Boston's WGBH, the station that produces Masterpiece Theatre. Lydon...
Cover stories in Time and Fortune on the "Twentysomethings," a cover story in The Atlantic on "the thirteenth generation," and a Barbara Walters special, among others, all tried to make some sense out of what novelist Douglas Coupland called "the Shampoo Generation...