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...Sunlight Dialogues evolves from the return of a once-prominent local lawyer to Batavia; self-exiled because of personal and financial disasters. No longer quite sane, Taggart Hodge assumes the pseudonym of the "Sunlight Man," a mystic, magician and aspiring philosopher king. Much of the story takes the shape of a thriller, replete with jail-break, murder, appearances and disappearances. But Medievalist Gardner doesn't stop here. The secretive dialogues of Hodge, an elusive and outspoken anarchist, with Batavia's strict law-and-order police chief (hence the title) are strangely reminiscent of Grendel's talks with Unferth in Grendel...
...Vladimir Nabokov published Ada, his fifteenth novel. He was then 70. In his youth he had identified and attached his name to a new species of butterfly, created the first Russian crossword puzzle, and translated Alice in Wonderland into his native tongue. Later, in the thirties, under the pseudonym V.V. Sirin, he had written what many critics consider the finest Russian novel of the century, The Gift. In the fifties, with a book called Lolita, he had put the word "nymphet" into the dictionary. Ada's masterful complexity seemed a natural culmination to the long list of novels, stories, poems...
Robert Patterson has always been a reporter of some mystery. In his first stint on the San Francisco Examiner, he wrote a successful column under the pseudonym of Freddie Francisco. Trouble was, his record of past convictions (theft, attempted forgery) came to light, and the elder William Randolph Hearst fired him in 1949. Patterson drifted into ghostwriting and two more prison terms (bad checks, forgery) before the Examiner took him back in 1965. Now 65, he is unemployed again because of a trip to China that possibly never took place...
...published several collections of sensitive, tightly constructed poems (Granite and Alabaster, 1922; Natural History, 1938; The Reminding Salt, 1965). His varied career included three years as executive editor of The New Yorker (1929-32) and stints as a brokerage-firm research analyst and a financial editor. Under the pseudonym Richard Peckham, he also wrote mysteries...
...group that included W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender. His work mixed slang, sardonic wit and radical thought in poetic-political commentary. By 1968 Day-Lewis had moved far enough away from Marxism to become poet laureate, but he enjoyed his greatest popularity as Nicholas Blake, the pseudonym he used in writing more than a score of moneymaking detective stories...