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White's is a transformation that begs for comparison with Saul's on the road to Damascus. Grandson of a tent revivalist, White was ghostwriter of choice in the 1980s to the Evangelical elite, co-authoring books with Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. One day, sitting with Falwell in a car surrounded by gay protesters, he realized he should be on the outside. After 25 years of clandestinely trying to "cure" himself via exorcism, electroshock and prayer, the father of two divorced and settled down with a man named Gary Nixon. Then he began searching...
...somewhat dreamy father Saul, the cantor at Beth Simcha synagogue, sees Eliza's skills with the alphabet as a sign that she is a "mystical prodigy" and begins training her for spelling competitions and for greater, more spiritual challenges ahead. "What do you and a Torah scribe have in common?" he asks her, and then answers when she falters: "Both spelling bees and Torah scribes share the idea that a word should be constructed perfectly...
Such a question occurred a few years ago to James Atlas, 51, who was, oddly enough, working on a long biography of Saul Bellow at the time. (Some 10 years in the making, the book is scheduled for publication this fall.) While jogging in Manhattan's Central Park, Atlas experienced an epiphany: "It seemed to me that there should be short biographies by great writers." A few days later, he mentioned this idea, over cocktails, to an editor at Viking (a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.), and a project was born. Atlas secured financial backing from Kenneth Lipper, an investment...
...Saul Bellow choose to fictionalize the life of his dear friend, the late Allan Bloom? Perhaps it is because the facts of Bloom's life require a hermeneutic to frame a relatively coherent picture...
...Saul Bellow...