Word: novelizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mallon, who wrote two non-fiction works before publishing his novel, says fiction writing is not a planned process because things "just sailed into my head." Mallon says he likes to describe fiction writing as "like cooking in Warsaw--whatever you can scrape up out of your mind...
...Great American Novel--it may be the dream of every English professor to write it. And although Thomas Mallon, a teacher at Vassar for the past nine years, would scarely call his first fictional work such a novel, he says the motivation is much the same...
...wants to try what one's been writing about," says Mallon, who says his study at Harvard helped prepare him for novel writing because "it encouraged us to write in a way that avoided the worst excesses of academic jargon...
Born in Long Island and educated at Brown before coming to graduate school here, Mallon agrees that his novel is popular fiction because its goal is to entertain. But, he says, "there is a sort of literacy involved" in understanding the novel, which is filled with literary and political allusions...
Though he says his mother and his students refuse to believe that the novel's main character, Artie, and his love affair with a British beauty are not strictly autobiographical, he explains that he gave his characters "bits and pieces of different people's resumes. "Until I wrote this novel, I didn't believe in composite characters," says Mallon...