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...stretched out on the floor." Between bouts Bukowski wrote terse, explicit poetry and fiction in the self-advertising style of Henry Miller ("The young coeds came up with their hot young bodies and their pilot- light eyes . . ."). Martin offered to pay the author $100 a month if he would quit his postal worker's job and work full time on a novel: "He left on the last working day of 1965. The next time I heard from him was at the end of January when he called to say he'd finished his book...
...retired from the U.S. Navy, and he had quit spying for the Soviet Union. But he was miserable. Unemployed and living on his $1,200-a-month service pension, the former chief radioman kept house in an olive-colored trailer in Davis, Calif., while his wife pursued her Ph.D. in hopes of helping to support them both. He listened to classical music, yet it did not soothe him. Referring to his decision to stop dealing in Government secrets, he wrote to his spymaster boss: "I realize this doesn't fit in with your advice and counseling over the years...
Hungarian-born Stephen Vizinczey, 52, already has one worldwide best seller to his credit. In Praise of Older Women (1965), a fictionalized erotic memoir of an apparently insatiable young man, was rejected by so many publishers that Vizinczey quit his broadcasting job in Toronto and paid to have the book printed. It went on to sell some 3 million copies in eight languages. His second novel, which arrives in the U.S. trailing clouds of praise from England, Germany, Canada and Australia, may do just as well. True, the sex this time around is considerably muted. But moods have changed over...
Born in Arkansas and reared in Oklahoma, Jones claims he was precocious from the start and tried to run away from home at age eight. Although both his parents were doctors, he quit school in the ninth grade and began working at a variety of jobs from welding to piloting airliners to making wildlife films in Africa. "Specialization is for insects," he snaps today. "There is no limit to my abilities. I can do anything and do it well if I turn my mind...
...midseason, after one of the co-captains had quit the squad, Doyle approached his coach. "I called Ishan to the side one day and said, 'I'm enjoying the game a lot. Will you let me be the [on-] court captain?" he recalls. "He said, 'I've been waiting for you to ask me that...