Sentences with phrase «literary fame»

It has had a great deal of literary fame throughout history as well.

And it can help a grandfather, someone who is not out for literary fame, but to just share stories with his grandchildren.

Who better to write about the perils of literary fame than one of the highest grossing authors of all time?

Some dogs have even achieved literary fame as canine car companions, like John Steinbeck's French poodle Charley.

If Roiphe had wanted literary fame, she would have started writing her own words much sooner.

But even as early as 1850, still flush with his early literary fame and staying with his brother Allan in a brownstone on Fourth Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets, Melville decided that he had to escape the Manhattan in which he failed to build any reputation besides being «the man who lived among cannibals.»

The script visits the legendary Dashiell Hammett as a younger, struggling writer, and imagines him returning to the detective beat (he worked for the Pinkerton Agency prior to attaining literary fame).

The film, which is being penned by Deborah Baxtrom, tells the tale of the young writer as she writes her now famous novel and «is drawn into a Faustian bargain with her own «monster» of an alter ego, who offers literary fame at a desperate personal cost.»

She wrote her first novel at age six and her second one in her early twenties, but literary fame eluded her.

His former literary fame and fortune shattered, Fitzgerald heads to Hollywood to try his luck at screenwriting.

Perhaps that's why writers are so vulnerable to cads promising literary fame and fortune.

Rupi Kaur's story is inspiring, and it shows that in today's technologically - advanced world, powerful and interesting poetry doesn't need the traditional publisher or middleman to gain literary fame.

This series was made in Dunwich on the Suffolk coast, a town brought to literary fame in W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn, once one of the most important ports in Europe and now a melancholic space of psychogeographic meditation.

It is an expose on the limits of literary fame, and all the grime and groveling that can go along with it.

Surely it was not that they wanted to achieve literary fame, for few of them were stylists and the Greek which they used is not the same as that of the «best» writers of their day.

Hume seems himself to have recognized that his desire for reputation and literary fame may have led him to rush into print.

«Perhaps I was a gold digger and my gold was literary fame,» she confesses.

That novel cemented Rushdie's literary fame, but he became even more famous for the controversy stirred by his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.

In his deeply confessional essay «The Crack - Up,» Fitzgerald offers this opening phrase, «Of course all life is a process of breaking down... «Here is a man born to the working class, rocketed to riotous stardom and literary fame, swept up in a storybook romance with Zelda who would become his wife, and then caught in a downward spiral.

Colette stars Keira Knightley and is about a woman forced to publish her novels under her husband's name — and what happens when her literary fame grows.

How did the son of a glovemaker rise to the heights of literary fame?

For McCourt, storytelling itself is the source of salvation, and in Teacher Man the journey to redemption — and literary fame — is an exhilarating adventure.

Yet, there is something else that you need in order to complete your literary fame.

There was one more avenue I'd yet to try in my pursuit of literary fame: give it away.

His mentor, Onslow Times, had retired and in a harsher economic climate, literary fame was an inadequate substitute for fee - earning services to clients.