Word: styron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current issue of Harper's contains an 8,000 word article, Blowing My Mind at Harvard, by Mr. King. This article-which will appear in the CRIMSON in two installments-is extraneous to that piece, largely treating the Cambridge appearances last spring of authors Norman Mailer and William Styron, though making other comments pertinent to the Harvard condition...
Paradoxically, very few of Plimpton's friends claim to know him well. Says Novelist William Styron: "You have an entree into the innards of most people you know for 18 or 20 years. With George you don't. He doesn't set up walls; they just exist." One reason may be that George does not want his innards examined; he frequently hides behind a cloud of vagueness so thick as to defy all but the most pointed questions. Another may be that he moves too fast for anybody to look very closely anyway. "A large part...
Morris knew. He brought a Texas friend, Larry King, to the magazine, lured Pulitzer Prizewinner David Halberstam away from the New York Times, and persuaded his friend and fellow Southerner William Styron to run a 35,000-word excerpt from The Confessions of Nat Turner in Harper's at a fee several times smaller than he could have got elsewhere. But his official declaration of independence came when he signed Norman Mailer to recount his experiences at a Washington peace march...
...Hara had little patience with writers of the '60s; he was of an earlier era, a contemporary of Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Sinclair Lewis. "I've never been able to read Norman Mailer," he complained in 1967. "Mailer is a dirty Saroyan." Bernard Malamud and William Styron received the same short shrift. Most young writers, however, confess to at least a degree of admiration for O'Hara. "He has more genius than talent," John Updike wrote in 1966. "Very little censoring went on in his head, but his best stories have the flowing ease and surprisingness...