Stanley Weintraub

T I he most calamitous December 7, reputedly, occurred in JL 2347 b.c. On tiiat Sunday morning, so Archbishop of Armagh James Ussher calculated in 1597, Noah's Flood began. Less in dispute is a later December 7, also much associated with water, ships, mountains, and unheeded prophecies of...

D. ean of his generation of novelists, William Golding came to writing as his profession relatively late in life. Until his middle forties he was unknown, the postwar generation of English writers pouring out a decade's worth of angry and not-so-angry novels and plays while he—hke many of the...