The picture of Philip Dray, author of "At the Hands of Persons Unknown," was by Sandra-Lee Phipps/Random House; that of James S. Hirsch, author of "Riot and Remembrance," was by Nancy Klemm/Houghton Mifflin.
The image used to illustrate this article is not a picture of the author.
"I said, 'cut out some of this [stuff].' " Like Mr. Max's biography, the panel gave a picture of the author as a lovable but difficult person to know.
A new biography by Donald Sturrock paints a sympathetic picture of the author that is also attentive to his many flaws.Dahl was a consummate storyteller.
By the last page, you have a very clear picture of the author, refracted through images of her idiosyncratic family in a vanished world.
A picture of an author in the New & Noteworthy Paperbacks column on Page 20 of the Book Review today is positioned incorrectly.
A credit was omitted in Circuits yesterday for a picture of Dave Walker, author of what he calls the Web's most boring journal.
Correction: May 16, 2003, Friday A credit was omitted in Circuits yesterday for a picture of Dave Walker, author of what he calls the Web's most boring journal.
Another picture of the author's early adulthoodis painted by someone who could barelysee over the dash of a Hemi Road Runner.
That, barring the opportunity to read the memoir he never sold, we nevertheless get a pretty clear picture of the author's midlife yearnings, shortcomings, ambition, fears and psyche in the pages of "The Class".
