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LEARNING CURVE Winter/Spring 2010 Famous Literary Feuds Gore Vidal once said, “It is inhuman to attack Capote. You are attacking an elf.” Sinclair Lewis once accused Theodore Dreiser of plagiarism by saying, “You are a liar and a thief.” Mary McCarthy slandered Lillian Hellman when she wrote, “Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’ “ Tom Wolfe called John Irving, Norman Mailer, and John Updike ‘the three stooges.” Hemingway had nasty words to say about Fitzgerald, Faulkner and most everyone else! Literary critic Roger Rosenblatt calls most writers “a bad lot on the whole - petty, nasty, bilious, suffused with envy and riddled with fear.” Join us for this fascinating 5-week survey as we uncover the poor behavior of some of our most famous authors. Instructor: William A. Fry, Ph.D., a founding member of the Learning Curve faculty, taught literature and writing at a Maryland college for more than thirty years. He served as Chair of the Literature Department and developed a series of literary travel-study tours, both domestic and international. This award-winning instructor and scholar was named Outstanding Professor for the State of Maryland in 1987 and received Professor of the Year Award in 1990. |
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