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Boris, a scholarship boy and avid sportsman at the exclusive boarding school Eton, is academically gifted. But his reports there worried that he might squander his huge potential by spreading himself too thin. It's a habit he's maintained in overlapping careers as a journalist, novelist, poet, classical historian, media personality and politician. "My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it," says Johnson, who became editor of the venerable U.K. political magazine the Spectator in 1999 and swiftly reneged on a promise to Conrad Black, its proprietor at the time, not to seek a parliamentary...
...Brave Companions,” is hands-down one of the best books to pass time riding on the T.) Yale also boasts several playwrights who’ve won Pulitzers, including Wendy Wasserstein, Thornton Wilder, and Doug Wright. Harvard winners include autobiographer Henry Adams class of 1858, novelist James R. Agee ’32, and poets ranging from Conrad P. Aiken ’12 to former U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz ’26. Harvard’s golden age of poetry has been lauded in numerous publications, and its early years were in part defined...
...Does anyone ever confuse you with novelist James Patterson...
Richard North Patterson has his eye on the Presidency. No, he's not declaring for office, although his background as a trial lawyer and a Watergate prosecutor make that a more realistic prospect than you might first think. Instead, the bestselling novelist (25 million books sold worldwide) has written another heart-pounding, ripped-from-the-headlines novel (his 15th), The Race (Holt). Just in time for the 2008 election, Patterson delves into the rough and tumble world of Presidential campaigns. TIME's Andrea Sachs reached Patterson at his home in San Francisco (he splits his time between there and Martha...
...Does anyone ever confuse you with novelist James Patterson...