Queen Elizabeth I (people tend to forget the Virgin Queen was as good a poet as she was speech maker)
Jane Austen
Emily Dickinson
Henry James (furious controversy about this – but there is general belief that an unfortunate household accident to the crotch area early in life did for him in the sex department)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
EM Forster (no full sex experience until his late 30s, by which time all his major fiction was written)
George Bernard Shaw
WB Yeats (virtually celibate until his 30s)
Anne Widdicombe (the only self proclaimed virgin in the Lower House and the author of more novels than any other MP)
Oh, I almost forgot - Christina Rossetti, the poet muse of the PRB.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true: Albus Dumbledore, master wizard and Headmaster of Hogwarts, is gay.
Dumbledore, played by Michael Gambon, was in love with his male rival, the author of Harry Potter books says.
J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall. After reading briefly from the final book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” she took questions from audience members. (more . . )
The Leaky Cauldron has a transcript.
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Before his death, Jonathan Swift pointed to a blighted tree and said to a friend, “I shall be like that tree; I shall die first at the top.†Philip Roth’s dying animals, at loose in the twilit carnival of his late work, reverse Swift’s prophecy: they fear they will die from the bottom up. Their minds are ripe with sexual energy, with transgressive vitality, but their bodies are sour with decline. The aging David Kepesh, in “The Dying Animal,†makes the mistake of growing infatuated with one of his many young conquests, and becomes the toy of her youthful sexual mastery. The elderly nameless protagonist of “Everyman,†Roth’s previous novel, weakened by heart surgery, watches young women jogging along a New Jersey boardwalk, aware of the absurd disparity between his waxing mind and his waning body. He starts a foolishly flirtatious conversation with one of them, who then changes her route and never returns, “thereby thwarting his longing for the last great outburst of everything.
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See also Terry Gross’ interview of Philip Roth (NPR)
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Jane Smiley on her novel about 10 days of swimming, eating and screwing
by Joey Rubin
Jane Smiley’s latest novel, Ten Days in the Hills, is creating waves in the world of literary criticism the way Britney’s shaved head seems to be doing everywhere else. The cause? Graphic sex, of course. John Updike wrote that Smiley has “set a new mark for explicitness in a work of non-pornographic intent.” And New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani found the “pages and pages of R-rated (sometimes X-rated) accounts of sexual shenanigans” too much to bear.
Smiley, the author of eleven other novels, including the 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winner A Thousand Acres, tells the story of ten people waiting out the beginning of the Iraq War in two mansions in the Hollywood Hills. The characters — which include a famous aging director named Max, his legendarily beautiful ex-wife Zoe, and their children, friends and lovers — sit around talking about the war, worrying about the world, watching movies and screwing.
But according to Smiley, all the sex is just a way of talking about love. “My theory of love includes a lot of sex. And yes, it’s pleasurable and enjoyable and interesting and deeply communicative sex.” Nerve spoke to Smiley about what it means to “make love” in a novel, and why she’s glad she’s not Angelina Jolie. — Joey Rubin
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by Viviane on 02/07/2007
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