Word: rhys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Jean Rhys, 84, reclusive British author who wrote critically acclaimed novels in the '30s, disappeared for 20 years, and regained celebrity with the 1967 publication of Wide Sargasso Sea; in Exeter, England. Struck by her "instinct for form" and "almost lurid passion for stating the case of the underdog," Ford Madox Ford became her literary mentor and, ironically, a model for the contemptible men in her stories who invariably prey on fragile, Rhys-like heroines. Rhys, who was writing her memoirs when she died, observed: "If you want to write the truth, you must write about yourself...
...Jean Rhys, octogenarian British novelist (Good Morning, Midnight), on living in France: "Paris sort of lifted you up. It did, it did, it did! You know, the light is quite pink, instead of being yellow or blue. I've never seen anything like it anywhere else...
...Rhys Brindley...