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Some Highbrow Literary Profiles from People Magazine in the 1970s and 80s

Filed under: Looked Into Tagged: Christoper Isherwood, Don Bachardy, Francis Bacon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joan Didion, Jonathan Taylor, Louise Nevelson, Nadine Gordimer, Nikki Giovanni, People magazine, Philip Glass, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Susan Sontag

An Angry Black Poet of the 1960's, Nikki Giovanni Cools Down with Success By Patricia Burstein, July 12, 1976

Writers Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne Play It as It Lays in Malibu By John Riley, July 26, 1976

Author Susan Sontag Rallies from Dread Illness to Enjoy Her First Commercial Triumph By Barbara Rowes, March 20, 1978

A Friend Recalls Affectionately a Shy Nobel Prize Playwright Named Samuel Beckett By Mira Avrech, April 13, 1981

Nobel Prize Winner Isaac Bashevis Singer on Life, Sex and the Storyteller's Art By Allan Ripp, May 17, 1982

Nadine Gordimer: A Radical South African Novelist Writes Paeans to Revolutionaries and Awaits a Racial Apocalypse By Joshua Hammer, March 26, 1984

After 31 Years, Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood Are Still a Portrait of Devotion By Carol Wallace, May 21, 1984

Saul Bellow Returns to Canada, Searching for the Phantoms That Shaped His Life and Art By Joshua Hammer, June 25, 1984

Also, music and art:

Francis Bacon: a Great English Painter Brings His Horror Show to America By Lee Wohlfert, April 21, 1975

Painter Alice Neel Strips Her Subjects to the Bone—and Some Then Rage in Their Nakedness By Patricia Burstein, March 19, 1979

Philip Glass Composes a Sanskrit Opera About Gandhi, but Who Can Understand a Word of It? By Joseph Roddy, October 06, 1980

—Jonathan Taylor

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