This is one more example of a recent outbreak of interest in Erickson, which includes a forthcoming biography, an official Roky guitar (a Gibson with a psychedelic design) and a two-CD anthology entitled I Have Always Been Here Before.
With atrocious timing, extracts from a forthcoming biography appeared last week in which Mr Blunkett spoke with lethal (for him) candour about other ministers.The comments, which were recorded a year ago, drained sympathy for Mr Blunkett's predicament and admiration for his achievement in overcoming his handicap.
"It's a fantasy that if you just pick the right person with the right set of interpersonal skills and political skills you're going to charm the guy in the middle," said Seth Stern, an author of a forthcoming biography of Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Indeed, Supreme Court justices are among the last people susceptible to schmoozing, flattery and arm-twisting.
Richard Schickel is the author of a forthcoming biography of Elia Kazan.
A forthcoming biography of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani says that the mayor's father, Harold Giuliani, served a year and a half in state prison for robbing a milk deliveryman.
His parents, according to a forthcoming biography of Springsteen by Peter Ames Carlin, were ravaged by grief.
"Nineteen fifty-eight: to all appearances a banner year!" 1 2 Next Page » Deborah Solomon, who writes the "Questions For" column in The Times Magazine, is the author of "Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell" and a forthcoming biography of Norman Rockwell.
1 2 Next Page » Deborah Solomon, who writes the "Questions For" column in The Times Magazine, is the author of "Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell" and a forthcoming biography of Norman Rockwell.
Adam Begley, author of a forthcoming biography, said Updike wrote two-thirds of "Willow," a small-town novel, while still a student at Harvard.
She is Mrs Whatsit, not Whatsis.The essay also misstated part of the title of a forthcoming biography of L'Engle by Leonard Marcus.
