Literature mavens tease out real lives from the mischievous games authors have used to hide themselves.
Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had, by Rick Bass Mariner/Houghton Mifflinn, $10), is a rapturous paean to the author's mischievous liver-colored pointer.
Ms. Leishman noted that the work's interactive structure took a reader closer to the artist, and "you can feel if the author is mischievous or vindictive or plainly schizophrenic".
But this domineering, mischievous and hyperactive man was undoubtedly the part-author of his own and his country's misfortunes.
Instructive, inquisitive, mischievous word jiggling, which includes a celebration of the author's Jewish family and the Jewish lingo.
After reading "A Burnt-Out Case," Evelyn Waugh wrote to Greene, "I know... how mischievous it is to identify fictional characters with their authors, but... this novel makes it plain that you are exasperated by the reputation which has come to you unsought as a 'Catholic' writer".
The title of Rushdie's 12th novel is a mischievous reference to Scheherazade's 1,001 Nights, and the Satanic Verses author channels the eastern tradition of "wonder tales" in this story of a world unraveling.
In his home country Mr. Bollani is fairly famous, as a solo artist, singer, author of novels and children's books, and a frequent figure on television, performing serious improvised music or mischievous impressions of Italian singers.
Man Booker prize-winning author Hilary Mantel delivered a spirited attack on her critics after the BBC was condemned over plans to broadcast her "mischievous" short story on the imagined assassination of Margaret Thatcher.
The author of no fewer than 80 novels, Aira is regarded as one of the most prolific, adventurous, and thrillingly mischievous writers in the Latin American world today.
