He has been described as "monkish" so often that a German musicologist has undertaken a deconstruction of the term, but the word still springs to mind unbidden: he could pose for an icon of St .John Chrysostom, or another of the literary saints.
"If our country had a formalized process for anointing literary saints, Harper Lee might be first in line, and one of the miracles held up as proof would be her choice to live out her final years in the small town that became the blueprint for our collective ideal of the Small Town," Kachka writes.
'AN EVENING WITH POE' (Friday) If Halloween had a literary patron saint, it would surely be Edgar Allan Poe, who comes back to life in the person of Kevin Mitchell Martin in this one-man show.
And Glass in turn wrote obsessively, devotedly, as if of some plaster saint, about his elder brother Seymour, his Literary Ideal.
Mickiewicz was welcomed into the leading literary circles of Saint Petersburg and Moscow, where he became a great favorite for his agreeable manners and extraordinary talent for poetic improvisation.
A recent article in Paris Match said she frequented the rich and trendy Parisian intelligentsia and literary circles of Saint-Germain des Prés, "where sexy blondes who look like Lolitas are always welcome".
Fagin as the "patron saint of literary street urchins"?
A student of Andrew Motion's with several books of poetry to her name (a name that calls to mind the patron saint of literary street urchins), Fagan has given us one of the most spirited heroines to cuss, kiss, bite and generally break the nose of the English novel in many a moon.
He was the patron saint of literary irresponsibility which, not coincidentally, often tipped over into toxicity insisting on the artistic necessity of transforming one's worst impulses into narrative.
Valentine highlights one aspect of the stories was the mix of "devilry and daring" demonstrated by Raffles; in this respect he was a literary "forerunner of The Saint, James Bond and other insouciant types".
