“Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.”

— Wilfrid Sheed

"V. S. Pritchett: Midnight Oil" (1972), p. 223
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)

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English-American novelist and essayist 1930–2011

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