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Ted Solotaroff, 79; editor helped shape works of prominent writers
Washington PostTed Solotaroff, a writer, critic and editor who founded New American Review, an influential literary journal in the 1960s and '70s, and who helped shape the works of prominent writers while at Harper & Row publishers, died Aug. 8 at his home in East...Tags: Lionel Trilling, Newspapers, Robert Bly, Rupert Murdoch, Newspaper and Magazine
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The ultimate self-doubter
Alfred Kazin By Richard M. Cook Yale University Press, 452 pages, $35 'I love to think about America," Alfred Kazin, 26, recorded in his journal in February 1942. He was finishing his canonical study of modern American literature, "On Native Grounds,"...Tags: Lionel Trilling, Brooklyn (New York City), California, Saul Bellow, Newspaper and Magazine
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Norman Mailer, 84; provocative, prolific novelist and essayist
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNovember 11, 2007 Norman Mailer, the pugnacious two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who jabbed and bobbed his way, sometimes literally, through an extraordinary career as one of the most original and audacious voices in postwar American letters, died...Tags: Gore Vidal, John Steinbeck, Newspapers, Bethlehem (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Joan Didion
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Author Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterKurt Vonnegut, an American cultural hero celebrated for his wry, loonily imaginative commentary on war, apocalypse, technology, materialism and other afflictions in "Slaughterhouse-Five" and other novels, has died. He was 84. One of the last of a...Tags: Cornell University, James Joyce, Newspapers, Gunter Grass, Weather Reports
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