W. G. Sebald, the profoundly elegiac and distinctive author of "Austerlitz" and other novels and one of the most acclaimed of contemporary writers, was killed yesterday in an automobile accident in Norfolk, England, near his home in Norwich in East Anglia.
Figure 4 The "Heatmap view" (here showing usage of racist terms) provides a comprehensive overview of which features are the most distinctive for each author, listed in rows.
Jonathan Ruppin, web editor for Foyles, called the shortlist "a real statement of intent... with a clear emphasis on authors with distinctive and unusual approaches to writing.
Using a combination of unsupervised and supervised analyses the authors identified distinctive miRNA expression profiles associated with known AML cytogenetic subtypes (Tables 1 and 2).
Sometimes critics (or reviewers) celebrate the author's distinctive style, sometimes they mimic it, sometimes they skewer it.
With her distinctive wit, Ephron, the author and filmmaker who died in June at the age of 71, tackled everything from politics to beauty products.
But the Times news pages increasingly are home to "voices," not merely reportage, as editors commission work bearing the author's distinctive point of view.
A novel in which a character takes an idiosyncratic attitude to the Tuscan countryside is more distinctive simply because the author proves at one stroke that he understands how to use point of view.
"Cancer in adolescents and young adults presents distinctive issues," said an author of that report, Dr. Karen Albritton, director of adolescent and young adult oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
Some liberties have been taken, as the series is set in the glam 1990s, rather than the dreary postwar 1950s of his youth, though the author's distinctive brand of delicious vulgarity remains intact.
