Like them, Scialabba is a generalist, a man of letters and a man of the Left, surprisingly unaffiliated and dauntingly well read, a man who has spent his writing life paddling against the currents of political orthodoxy and academic specialization.
"Sean is a well-read man and he is a great story-teller.
He admired and respected his father, a well-read man who wore his learning lightly.
Unusually for a movie executive, he was a reserved and well-read man who collected paintings.
I think this particular president is already a well-read man, thank God, and needs no reading recs from me.
The role of the explainer comes easily to Al Aswany, a gregarious, well-read man in his early 50s.
Strauss was in fact a well-read man, intelligent and shrewd, but he lacked an inner demon.
"Jules was one of those complex people you never know too well," Mr. Shulberg said, "but he was a well-read man and a dedicated artist.
He could not comprehend how his grandfather, a cultured, well-read man, came to join the Nazi party aged 18 after meeting Hitler.
He is an exceptionally eloquent & well-read man, who finds it easy to speak movingly of his books & his past & of his barge life.
