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THAT PILFERING NOVELIST...
...trivialized the matter of plagiarism. If this had involved two male writers of a male-oriented genre--say the shoot-'em, blow-'em-up, stab-'em-in-the-belly genre (and we all know how classy these books are)--you probably would have treated it seriously. As a novelist who has more than 25 million books in print in various genres, including historical romance, suspense, fantasy and science fiction, I feel qualified to state that those of us who write books for a living take the theft of our material very seriously. Plagiarism is plagiarism, no matter what the type...
...Novelist PATRICIA CORNWELL always boasts that the secret to her big book sales is research. Perhaps she should have relied more on imagination. A Virginia couple have sued the author, who used to work in the state's chief medical examiner's office, for using private details of their daughter's murder in her 1992 novel All That Remains. Among the alleged similarities: a victim is found with her eyeballs missing and two front teeth beside her. Cornwell's agent had no comment...
...split by tree roots; its temple mountains and crumbling pine-cone spires. Spreading over some 150 sq. mi., it has excited dithyrambs from visitors ever since the French started going there in the 19th century. "I looked up at those towers rising above me, overgrown with greenery," wrote the novelist Pierre Loti in 1912, "and I suddenly shivered with fear as I saw a giant frozen smile looming down at me.. and then another smile, over there on another tower...and then three, and then five, and then...
DIED. WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, 83, novelist, cult figure and perhaps the most audacious member of a Beat Generation trinity whose two other divinities were Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg; after a heart attack; in Lawrence, Kans. Burrough's groundbreaking novel Naked Lunch, first published in Paris in 1959, was both praised as a work of genius and denounced as incomprehensible garbage and pornography. His life was as extreme as the experimental fiction he pioneered, involving alcohol, heroin, homosexuality, a celebrated obscenity trial in Boston and, in 1951, his accidental killing of his wife while shooting a glass...