Perhaps it's telling that before they were nominees, John McCain and Barack Obama pursued literary careers, and that those careers unfolded in parallel.
The son of a Wesleyan Methodist lay preacher, Cooke pursued literary and theatrical interests at Jesus College, Cambridge, and graduated summa cum laude in 1930.
Moholy-Nagy continued to pursue literary ambitions after the war, publishing experimental poems and, for a time, editing and publishing his own literary journal.
Few Americans are among them, even though previous generations of young American graduates have pursued literary careers in Paris or tried to take capitalism and democracy to Russia and Eastern Europe.
A. O. Scott wrote in The Times that "Capote" was a "fascinating and fine-grained reconstruction of that period in its subject's life, a time when he pursued literary glory and flirted with moral ruin".
Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott said that Bennett Miller's drama, with a script by Dan Futterman, "is a fascinating and fine-grained reconstruction of that period in its subject's life, a time when he pursued literary glory and flirted with moral ruin".
In another life, he used to be VICE's office manager in Brooklyn but left in a glorious Hiroshima of burned bridges to pursue "literary stuff" (not really, Avi is a studious and very nice gentleman, but that truly is the best way to leave a job).
While pursuing his literary career, he was the French ambassador to Tokyo (1921), Washington (1927), and Brussels (1933).
As if pursuing a literary dare, Mr Lanchester has made cardboard cut-outs and seen if he could make them breathe.
