Word: novelists
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After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1890, William James, the brother of novelist Henry James, began first teaching at Harvard College as the first professor in relatively new field of psychology...
Performers take to New Tonalist pieces like pols to an open mike, but many critics bristle at the pieces' crowd-pleasing traditionalism. An unsympathetic Dallas reviewer brushed off Liebermann's unabashedly tuneful Second as "excruciatingly conventional." Retorts the composer: "That's like criticizing a novelist because his grammar is correct...
Nora Roberts, a romance novelist, has written 134 books; over 100 million are in print
...scarcely 11 years after his death, he has already inspired two indelible biographies. Susannah Clapp's With Chatwin, of two years ago, was as sleek and elliptical and unorthodox as its subject, and gave us the man as he looked from across an editor's desk. Shakespeare, a stylish novelist with a gift for exotic locales (in the Acknowledgments he cites sources in 22 countries, from Benin to Nepal), provides every other face. The figure who emerges was a deeply solitary soul, hiding behind his exaggerated performances but genuinely driven by a vision, and elusive, perhaps, even to himself...
Mark Leyner is a novelist and screenwriter. His most recent novel is The Tetherballs of Bougainville