While letters had long been used for commercial, military or state affairs, the 17th-century Dutch embraced letter writing as a highly personal and intimate form of communication.
His readiness to spend time joking with fans sparked a collection of anecdotes on Twitter, which he embraced by writing the associated hashtag across his bare chest and uploading a photo.
In "A Soldier's Embrace", written in the early 1980s, a liberal white couple find themselves sidelined by the new black elite after liberation, and choose to leave.
"We must learn, finally, that wilderness is not, as our history has insisted, a threat to be conquered but in fact a lesson to be embraced," he wrote in "Stone Time," a 1994 book about southern Utah, a region of high desert and forbidding canyons he particularly loved.
Announcing the changes in London on Wednesday, the Booker Foundation said: "The expanded prize will recognise, celebrate and embrace authors writing in English, whether from Chicago, Sheffield or Shanghai".
Although he is non-religious, he embraces mystery, writing that it "is not something negative that has to be eliminated.
The L.A. Times, especially back in those days, really embraced distinctive writing and storytelling.
I am sure this is my fault rather than Atwood's, but it seemed almost as though she had embraced automatic writing, that fad of the 19th century that suggested a writer could just sit down and the words could be channelled directly to his or her pen.
"It's the beginning mind I embrace," she wrote.
Perhaps even more stunningly, considering the name Tim Donaghy gives Commissioner David Stern an instant case of hives, the N.B.A. is still warm to the idea of embracing gambling, writes Adrian Wojnarowski on Yahoo.com.
