Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plot of Erica Jong's new novel, Any Woman's Blues quite literally never gets out of bed. As the author herself says in the forward to the novel, "[It] is not for the prudish...It is throbbing and raw to a degree that will shock the most hardened libertine...
...interjecting conversation between Sand and Wing throughout the story, Jong claims she will show the reader the process of writing the novel, the struggle between author and subject when the story becomes as real for the writer as her life...
...Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell (1984). The author, one of America's most underappreciated novelists (Mrs. Bridge, 1959; Mr. Bridge, 1969), uses his imaginative skills to re-create the historical George Armstrong Custer and his foolhardy last stand. An unconventional retelling of the familiar legend that broke new ground in the organization and narration of the history of the Old West...
...Alone: 1932-1940 by William Manchester (1988). Although not as long or crammed as Martin Gilbert's official eight-volume life of Winnie, Volume II of Manchester's opus takes the irrepressible Brit through the gathering storm to the first thunderclaps of World War II and demonstrates that the author is one of today's best writers of narrative prose...
...Arpad Goncz, author and playwright. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1956 and released under a 1963 amnesty. Unable to publish, he worked as a pipe fitter...