The curious life of J. D. Salinger
Ann M. Begley
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Grand Old Man of Letters
Somerset Maugham was of one of the most widely read writers of the 20th century.
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Edinburgh’s Grande Dame
Scholars have difficulty categorizing Muriel Spark; she has no identifiable precursors.
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A Vacillating Believer
What can the letters of Graham Greene tell us about the man?
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Revisiting Greeneland
The urge to reveal ourselves to others is often stifled by prudence One of the rewards of writing novels is that the inner hidden self of an author can be mined brought to the surface and exhibited as fiction As the Joseph Conrad scholar Norman Sherry demonstrates in his authorized biography of