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Death of an Expert Witness by P.D. James (Scribner's; $8.95). Since James, 57, is English and a woman, she is frequently hailed as a worthy successor to Christie, Sayers, Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh. James' knowledge of locale (in this case, East Anglia's murky, misty fen country) and contemporary mores (some pretty kinky), her familiarity with forensic science (which is what Expert's plot is mostly about) and keen psychological insight, all mark her as an original. Her seventh and best mystery novel brings back Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh, who writes offbeat...
DIED. John Hall Wheelock, 91, lifelong poet and former chief editor at Charles Scribner's Sons; in Manhattan. At Scribner's, Wheelock worked with Novelist Thomas Wolfe, Philosopher George Santayana and, in a distinguished series of anthologies, launched a number of American poets, including James Dickey and Louis Simpson. His own first book of poetry was published when he was 25, but much of his serene, stately, affirmative verse "poured out," he said, after he had retired as an editor nearly 50 years later...
...talk with the authority of failure-Ernest with the authority of success," he wrote in his Notebook. His difficulties with alcohol and his desperate need to duplicate his youthful successes often drew harsh responses from his old friend Hemingway. In a letter to Maxwell Perkins, their editor at Scribner's, he blamed Scott's troubles on his "cheap Irish love of defeat" and wanted him to stop trying too hard for another masterpiece, adding that "only fairies deliberately write masterpieces...
...march through a maze," counters Harvey Scribner, former New York City chancellor of schools and now a professor at the University of Massachusetts School of Education. "Classrooms should be opened up." Meanwhile parents blame teachers, teachers blame parental permissiveness' and educators point to society as the culprit. "Everyone is trying to pass the buck," says Grace Baisinger, president of the national Parent-Teacher Association...
...told, feeling as though he had not reached his full potential: "When he saw what he had created, he felt cheated; his talent was too limited and so was what it produced," Yardley says. Lardner, despite the encouragement of Fitzgerald and Max Perkins, an editor at Scribner's, never wrote a full-length novel. When he died of tuberculosis at the age of 48, his work had petered out and he was writing purely to make enough money to support his family...