Word: novelists
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...father was an opium agent for the British Raj - has brought a tide of conferences, articles and books on the man and his legacy. Chief among them are two engrossing biographies: George Orwell by British author Gordon Bowker (Little, Brown; 495 pages) and Orwell: The Life by British novelist and critic D.J. Taylor (Chatto & Windus; 466 pages). Also stoking the fire are two slimmer works: Why Orwell Matters by polemicist Christopher Hitchens (Basic Books; 211 pages) and an entertaining look at Orwell's second wife Sonia, The Girl from the Fiction Department by Hilary Spurling (Penguin; 208 pages). These additions...
Friends as well as family puzzled over his decision to become a novelist. They worried that he would wake up when he was 40 and find that he had wasted his life, he says...
Golden does not attribute the success of his characters to a magic trick, but rather to a careful honing of the skills of a novelist and a keen eye for observation...
...Geisha, I became deeply interested in how people work,” Golden says. “People think I wrote Memoirs of a Geisha as a scholar of Asia. I wrote it as a writer. I thought of myself and drew on skills I developed as a novelist...
...writing is approached in a very different way—like conquering all of literature. He takes no shortcuts, whatever it takes,” friend and fellow novelist Mameve Medwed says. “By the time he sits down to write he knows everything there is to know—only Arthur would learn Dutch for his new novel...