Namedropping: Mostly Literary Memoirs

by Richard Elman

Book Overview

In the course of the same old race I find myself writing about knowing some people--how fame seems to set some people apart from us, once known: I was astonished by Ernest Hemingway's small, weak handshake when we were introduced at Scribners by John Hall Wheelock and by the jolt of force with which Elie Wiesel squeezed my hand.

How long ago seems knowing, too: when I first meet Isaac Singer he asks me, "Who is Mr. Saul Bellow?"

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791438791
• ISBN13: 9780791438794
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.3"