Word: pseudonymity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William Wharton is a pseudonym for the wordly, remarkable artist who wrote Birdy. Presumably, he uses a pseudonym to protect his painting career. He is old enough to be a grandfather, but Birdy is his first novel...
Like its literary antecedents, Spoon River Anthology and Winesburg, Ohio, John Howland Spyker's Little Lives consists of sketches: hard, brilliant line drawings of small-town Americans. With a roving eye for bawdy detail, Spyker (pseudonym for Poet and Novelist Richard Elman) compresses each life into a tidy epiphany; an individual is captured with an anecdote or gesture, an eccentricity or epitaph. Judge Fury collected wives and knives; "P.C.B." Terry, who once took a swig of that carcinogenic chemical, spent the rest of his life growing tomatoes that no one else dares to eat. Hypolite Hargrove made a small...
...Russian Blanket, or the high-keyed color swatches, like details from Matisse's wallpaper back grounds, of Kim MacConnel's Baton Rouge, 1978. There is also a liking for emblems, sometimes of a puzzling sort−as in the paintings of Lois Lane (not a pseudonym), which sport in profile a curious little animal vaguely resembling a horse, silhouetted on a column against a dark background or dangling from what appears to be a parachute. Here, quirkiness is pushed almost to the the point of risk...
These few flaws arise from excess, from an ambitious giving of more than is strictly required. First Novelist William Wharton (the pseudonym of a Philadelphia-born painter now in his mid-50s and living in Paris) is nothing if not audacious, and his skills and determination make good on promises. Like his afflicted hero, Wharton tries the impossible, and the result, though linked to earth, mysteriously soars...
...best first novel of the year, except that the year is 1926. That was when the book appeared briefly in England and the U.S. before sinking from view. Its author was Henry Yorke, a wealthy young Oxford student who went on to write eight more novels under the pseudonym Henry Green. Although he never achieved widespread popularity before his death in 1973, Green did not labor in quite the obscurity that his circle of admirers claim; his novel Loving, published in the U.S. in 1949, flirted briefly with the bestseller list. But even his most dedicated fans have had trouble...