Word: novelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposed Volume II remains open-ended. Greene is 84 and still active (The Captain and the Enemy, his 24th novel, was published last year). Sherry, a professor of literature at Trinity University in San Antonio, has yet to tackle Greene's Africa service with British intelligence, his marital breakup, love affairs, involvements with the movie business, anti-Americanism and friendships with left-wing Latin American leaders Fidel Castro and Omar Torrijos of Panama. One should also expect deep penetration of the privacy that surrounds Greene's life in the south of France, where he has lived since...
...Heath. His brick business in Fort Worth had gone belly up. He had tried construction work and humping freight on loading docks, but without graduating far beyond the minimum wage. So to nurse his bank account and a romantic ambition, Heath pulled out his typewriter and tapped out a novel based on his days as a helicopter pilot in Viet Nam. In March William Morrow and Avon Books paid Heath $300,000 for his novel, CW2 (after his former military rank, chief warrant officer, second grade). "Beats the brick business," says Heath. "But then, anything beats the brick business...
...Every day somebody gives us a time bomb. They look very pretty, and they're only costing you $2 million, but they're going to go off." Among last year's crop of six-figure books that failed to make the national best-seller lists: Jay McInerney's third novel, Story of My Life (Atlantic Monthly Press); George Bernau's first novel, Promises to Keep (Warner Books); and Studs Terkel's The Great Divide (Pantheon Books...
...While the heavy advances for potential best sellers have prompted some authors to fear publishers will neglect books of lesser commercial potential, the demand for new books has actually produced a greater variety at many firms. Doubleday plans to publish 18 literary novels this year by first- or second-time authors, in contrast to only two in 1986. Says literary agent Virginia Barber: "We used to get as little as $5,000 for a literary novel. Now it might sell...
...affairs--promoting faculty research, making sure that corporations are satisfied with the year's crop of MBAs, and soliciting funds. In this capacity, McArthur serves as a high-profile publicist, professors say, often using the B-School's press and videos to present information about the school in a novel...