Gore Vidal

During her first visit to the USA, ES met Charlie Chaplin , Greta Garbo , and Marianne Moore . A press party at the Gotham Book Mart in New York was attended by ES ...

Homosexuals in British fiction had been portrayed mostly as sick, funny, or both since the Oscar Wilde trials (1895). E. M. Forster had kept his Maurice unpublished. Radclyffe Hall had run into trouble. Virginia Woolf

This book received the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize from the Book Trust in the year of its publication. It was praised by reviewers in The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, The...

Reviews were mostly excellent.Gore Vidal , in the Times Literary Supplement, called this a novel written at the top of her form.

In 1915 EN was granted a Civil List pension of sixty pounds a year. She was pleased but not overwhelmed at this honour, and thought it ought not to have been taxed. She evidently...

BB was awarded the London Magazine prize for prose in 1962 and the Tony Godwin Award in 1985. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1973.Peter Parker

Edward Candy 's review in The Times asserted that EF , in denying that women exist for the primary purpose of bearing children, was refusing to accept the biological difference between the sexes. She pointed...

According to critic Peter Parker , Winterson published the book against the advice of her friends. It received bad reviews, and she apparently tried unsuccessfully to prevent its reissue later. However, as Fiammetta Rocco writes...

ET , who had been taken on in an attempt to avoid negative reviews like those that had plagued Alexandra Ripley 's sequel, Scarlett, 1991, finished the book four months ahead of schedule, but...

This, with Harding's Luck, the book which followed it, were named by Gore Vidal as his favourites among EN 's works.

The Scapegoat was made into a film adapted by Gore Vidal , financed in part by Alec Guinness and DDM , directed by Robert Hamer , starring Guinness and Bette Davis . It was critically...