Elizabeth Hardwick, grande dame of letters, has died at the age of 91. Her obituary at the New York Times.
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RIP Elizabeth Hardwick, co-founder of the NY Review of Books
Posted: December 5, 2007 in Literary Passages0
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Buchwald wasn’t supposed to have lived to see 2007, but for whatever reason, whether blind fate or just sheer cantankerousness, survive he did for almost a year after he’d checked into a hospice to die in February of 2006. After cheating death, Buchwald spent a summer on Martha’s Vineyard working on [...]
Literary Birthday J.R.R. Tolkien was born January 3, 1892, in South Africa. Best known today for his book The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien was also a professor of philology (the study of the derivation of languages) at Oxford. Tolkien created his own language, Elvish, which he used in his Lord [...]
