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...after college, Alter had less conviction about life-long interests. “I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with my life at all,” he says. Whitaker was going to graduate school at Oxford and working at the London bureau of Newsweek...
After finishing his thesis comparing Henry Kissinger’s academic work and his performance in office and graduating summa cum laude in Social Studies, Whitaker took a prestigious Marshall scholarship to study at Oxford...
...DIED. DOM MORAES, 65, Indian poet whose work drew on his childhood in Mumbai and his years of bohemian dissipation in London; in Mumbai. While an undergraduate at Oxford, Moraes became the youngest-ever winner of Britain's prestigious Hawthornden Prize for his first collection of poetry, A Beginning, which he published at age 19. Despite moving back to India in 1979, Moraes never mastered an Indian language. He recently told an interviewer: "I don't think I belong anywhere...
...rejected, as were a few other attempts. But the summer after Updike’s graduation, preparing to study drawing at Oxford on a Knox fellowship in the fall, he wrote a short story in response to a piece by John Cheever that he had read. The New Yorker accepted it and, a bit later, bought a slightly revised version of his ex-basketball-player story, now titled “Ace in the Hole...
...born on the island of Sri Lanka. The Hamilton Case is set there, back when it was the English colony of Ceylon--"a useful bauble," De Kretser writes, "fingered and pocketed by the Portuguese, Dutch and British in turn." Our hero is Sam Obeysekere, a Ceylonese lawyer educated at Oxford who, with his genteel Western airs, is seemingly bent on out-Englishing the English. His story takes some time to reveal itself as a mystery, but it does so when Obeysekere takes on the case of a respectable English planter--Hamilton--who gets shot in the chest. "Murder, a moonless...