Word: pseudonymes
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Jean Brüller is a French writer who, under the pseudonym of Vercors, founded Editions de Minuit, a French underground press, during World War II and briefly followed the French Communist Party line. On the whole, Vercors seems to distrust the rebellious spirits he has known-especially those whose revolt was mainly verbal. The hero of his sixth novel is a meticulous and withering portrait of what he takes to be the type...
...DELIVERY SYSTEM WORK? A top editor at the Knight newspapers received a call from a man who admitted he was using a pseudonym. Was the Knight chain interested in the papers? Then it would have to agree that it would protect them against Government seizure. The editor consented and told his Washington bureau chief, Robert Boyd, to expect a long-distance call. The stranger telephoned Boyd several times, each time offering a hint as to where the secret documents might be found. "It was like a treasure hunt," explained one editor...
Died. Manfred B. Lee, 66, co-creator of Ellery Queen, the genius of deductive detection; of a heart attack; in Roxbury, Conn. In collaboration with his cousin Frederic Dannay, Lee wrote seven books of short stories and 35 novels about Queen, the solemn first-person protagonist. The pseudonym was eventually carried over to a monthly detective-story magazine, a long-lived radio program and a television series. All told, including short-story anthologies, Ellery Queen enjoyed book sales of 125 million. Keeping their writing methods a Queenlike mystery, Lee and Dannay developed such rapport that they were able to confound...
...lives serenely in a tiny 17th century house in the Thames Valley. The most lyrical of the group, she is also the least concerned with plot. Child from the Sea is her 25th novel, and she claims mildly that it will be her last. - Victoria Holt is a pseudonym, the only one in the group. Its owner is a childless London widow named Eleanor Hibbert, 64, who now spends much of her time on luxury cruises. She is incredibly prolific-more than 100 books in all-and contrives wondrously complex plots. In addition to romances, she does straight historical novels...
...simply as a pleasurable, nonaddictive drug somewhat less harmful than alcohol. Moreover, Michael has a kid brother Douglas, a student with a fine ear for the funky idiom of youth plus patent expertise about marijuana as a commodity and a mystique. Combining their talents under the pseudonym "Michael Douglas," the Crichton boys manufactured Dealing in a matter of months...