Word: novels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conway added that he had not completed arrangements for other visitors to the House. He denied a rumor that Jack Kerovac, author of "On the Road," a novel about American bohemians, was coming to Leverett...
...fines, by a federal court in New York City: stony-faced Colonel Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, 55, who, posing as an artist, served for nine years as one of the top Red spies in the U.S., until federal agents searched his Brooklyn studio and found an array of such spy-novel devices as hollowed-out coins and cuff1 links (TIME, Aug. 19 et seg.). Under the law, Abel could have been sentenced to death, but Judge Mortimer W. Byers apparently heeded the defense attorney's arguments that Abel might talk later on, and that the U.S. might some day want...
Generalizing about novel writing, Marquand stated that "any fictional character is derived from the sum of the author's experience. It is impossible," he said, "to transcribe any one person onto a printed page...
...biggest deterrent to novel writing is income tax, added Marquand. "I really think that money contributes to good writing...
HOUSE OF LIES, by Françoise Mallet-Joris (311 pp.; Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.75), is a novel with a curiously old fashioned, even Gothic air. An old, wealthy brewer is slowly dying of heart disease in a provincial Belgian town. Around him hovers a cluster of relatives who live for nothing more than the huge fortune they hope to slice. Only one person cares nothing for his money-an illegitimate daughter whom he has acknowledged, taken into his home and educated. Anything but original as a plot-but Author Françoise Mallet-Joris, still only 27, has already...