Word: novelists
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Former Harvard President Derek C. Bok, violinist Isaac stern and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John H. Updike '54 will receive honorary degrees at Commencement today...
...leading American novelist, now, ofhis generation, said Professor of English andAmerican Literature Philip J. Fisher. "He's anatural choice for this, a wonderful choice...
...Rabbit is Rich is, I think, oneveryone's list of greatest American works," saidBluementhal, who teaches Updike's novelSelf-Consciousness in his course. "He'sboth a consummate prose stylist and a reallybroad-ranging thinker and critic...certainly hewill go down as the essential American novelist ofthis period...
Tracing his life story from his undergraduate days at Amherst College as a struggling and oft-rejected writer to his current days of professional success, Turow explained how he had been able to reconcile the dreams of the novelist with the plans of a lawyer...
Once in college, he dropped out of Harvard and joined the Coast Guard just one semester before he would have graduated. And in his thirties, he left a steady, good-paying job to launch a risky career as a novelist...