Word: writes
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Gilligan's work marks the first time anyone has studied female moral development. "Before Gilligan's work there wasn't enough material to write a chapter on girls and moral develpment," says Edith Phelps, the director of a new center for the study of gender, education and human development at the Ed School...
...Oscar Wilde ("You know, I don't really appreciate the Virgin Mary. She always looks so dull"). West is mischievously iconoclastic about famous authors as only one who has rubbed elbows with them can be. Shaw's was "a poor mind, I think"; Maugham "couldn't write for toffee, bless his heart...
...retain the play's intellectual breadth and formal audacity without betraying the movie medium's demand for matter of fact naturalism. And he persuaded Shaffer, who had been disappointed by film adaptations of his plays, including The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Equus, to write the Amadeus screenplay, reshaping Amadeus from a madman's memory play to a more realistic musical biography. Recalls Shaffer: "It was like having the same child twice...
Such Op-Ed argumentation has begun to appear, alas, in other thrillers. Its most notable recent use was in General Sir John Hackett's two books noisily predicting a third world war. But Hackett's purpose was not to write novels; it was to use the techniques of fiction to argue his case for a buildup in conventional arms. An escape narrative must be nimbler. In The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and his later novels, Le Carré gave the spy thriller all the ideological baggage that the pockets of a trench coat could handle...
...huge success seven years later of his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, he was famous in Manhattan literary circles for his lyrical, funny and gothic short stories, nearly all on the theme of loneliness. He went on to adapt his stories for the stage, produce screenplays and write nonfiction works. Of In Cold Blood, his horrific 1965 account of the murder of a Kansas family by two drifters, he boasted that he had created a new genre, the nonfiction novel. As much a member of the glitterati as the literati, Capote was a gossipy, party-loving sybarite with...