Giles Gordon

Giles Gordon , who was at one time her literary agent, later wrote that she was impossible about her work. Pay her a compliment—and she would inevitably take it as an insult.

LP was so moved that she wept as she wrote this play. She later perceived an autobiographical element in it. Reviewers were on the whole less impressed than they had previously been by Page...

Set in an unnamed town, which is clearly Brighton, the novel is, as Giles Gordon describes it, a Graham Greene thriller as if reworked by a somewhat romantic Burroughs . The first sentence—the...

Berg earned AQ two major awards: the Harkness Fellowship, given to the most promising Commonwealth artist under thirty years, and the D. H. Lawrence Fellowship from the University of New Mexico .Giles Gordon

AQ published a handful of short stories and articles in various journals, including Nova, the London Magazine, transatlantic review, and Antigonish Review. In the mid-sixties she told her publisher,...

The title story had been turned down by The New Yorker (which in fact accepted only two of the eleven stories in this volume) and by British periodicals.The Fly-Paper from this volume was...

The Fifth of November was chosen by Giles Gordon for Modern Short Stories 2 1940-1980, 1982.

Weldon wrote a fighting speech for the awards ceremony, protesting .about publishers' treatment of authors. She claimed later to have shown it ahead of time to the organisers, but I suppose they hadn't bothered to...