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Appearing on Oprah and Larry King touting her autobiography, She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, novelist JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN told how she stayed married to her wife after her sex change. It's a transsexual tale even pro-family groups might love...
DIED. RONA JAFFE, 74, novelist best known for The Best of Everything, published in 1958 and quickly turned into a movie by 20th Century Fox; of cancer, in London. Written with a canny eye to film adaptation, the book followed the fortunes of four beautiful stenographers torn between love and ambition, a pre-feminist precursor of Sex and the City...
...tennis court, where mom, dad and the two boys play as fiercely as if this were a grudge match at the U.S. Open, or in their disintegrating home, where each pursues self-destruction with an anchorite?s intensity. Bernard (Jeff Daniels) is a college professor and one-time promising novelist who is stewing in the rancor of midlife mediocrity. His wife Joan (Laura Linney) has emerged from his shadow to land a novel with a prestigious publisher, and is celebrating by having an affair with the family?s tennis pro. Elder son Walt (Jesse Eisenberg) is burrowing into his teenage...
...Novelist Drifts Off Writing books is a somewhat mysterious craft, one at which author John Fowles was immensely successful [MILESTONES, Nov. 21]. When The French Lieutenant's Woman was published 36 years ago, Fowles, who died last month at age 79, talked to TIME about how he became a novelist...
...Pring-Wilson left the courtroom, he stuffed a paperback book by detective novelist Rex Stout into his the pocket of his green suit, and he wore a smile on his face...