Crane, a struggling freelance writer, researched his subject partly through magazine accounts of the civil war, a popular subject, and partly through conversations with veterans.
But then an Austrian writer researching something else stumbled across papers in German military and Austrian ministerial archives referring to Waldheim's war service.
The narrator, an aging Swiss writer researching a book in Chicago, meets a mysterious young grad student in a library and falls in love.
In 1983 he starred in Tarkovsky's "Nostalghia," playing a writer researching the life of a 17th-century Russian composer who had lived in Italy.
As a writer researching a book about Hiroshima, I thought that Tinian was a must-see destination, a key link in the chain that began at the White House and ended over Hiroshima that hot August day.
Unlike other purity balls, the daughters here do not make a pledge, said Amanda Robb, a New York-based writer researching a book about the abstinence movement who was at the Broadmoor event.
Rana B. Khoury is an independent writer researching the impact of the economic downturn on Ohioans.
To me, it depends on the writers' research, how they deploy it, and their attitude to the conditions they describe.
Fom typing on a rolling stream of white space to editing in a cloud, shifts in hardware have altered the way writers research, draft, refine and, ultimately, conceive of their work.
