Word: styron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emphasize high-profile journalistic books. "I'll get a chance to repeat the kind of thing I did at the Sunday Times," he says. But within hours of being appointed, he was on the phone with some of Random House's top fiction authors -- among them E.L. Doctorow, William Styron and Norman Mailer -- to reassure them of his "passionate interest" in their work. He was calling other authors as well, in an effort to woo them to Random House. "He has a huge amount of personal prestige in the publishing and writing community," says literary agent Mort Janklow. "He will...