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Posted in Literary Biography, Uncategorized on Jun 25th, 2007
To fans of Bl. Flannery, this is very exciting news: 274 letters she wrote to longtime correspondent Betty Hester have been unsealed—one hopes they will also soon be published!
Here’s a writing gem from one of them, which I’m going to send out to the Quotesletter list:
“You would probably do just as well to get […]
Posted in Literary Biography on Feb 9th, 2006
(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004) reviewed by Debra Murphy
A funny thing happened between the time I graduated from the University of Illinois in 1976, when I first heard the word “Semiotics” (but hadn’t a clue what it meant), and the early nineties, when I began researching Shakespeare lit […]
Posted in Literary Biography on Jan 30th, 2006
Reviewed by Debra Murphy
(order from Amazon: Evelyn Waugh: A Biography)
This 1975 biography of Catholic convert and novelist Evelyn Waugh, one of the luminaries of the so-called “Catholic Literary Revival” of the first half of the twentieth century, was written by Waugh’s contemporary, friend and fellow Catholic, English writer Christopher […]