![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then in 2007 fellow children’s book writer Kacy Cook helped crack the vault, and out poured 35 years of research, notes, speeches and manuscripts that formed the gritty trail of an American intellectual and her life as mother, wife and prolific writer.īusily living the working life and raising children, Adoff never stopped to assess the volume of work he and Hamilton were producing. Every day Arnold Adoff, her husband and writing partner, passed the office at their home in Yellow Springs, but he didn’t want to open it. For many years after her death in 2002, the glass door to Virginia Hamilton’s writing office remained closed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() That being said, she is only ever vaguely described as a 'cripple.' Did Dostoevsky have any specific condition in mind when he wrote that character? She could be considered the only morally upstanding character in the novel, due to the fact that she is more or less a tabula rasa. As to her 'feeble mindedness,' she could readily be classified as an isolate, given the fact that her brother more or less kept her quarantined in their home and gained custody of her simply as a means to secure cash payments from Stavrogin. She is plainly ambulatory, and can move from one place to another of her own accord (as is evident during the chapter in which she approaches Varvara Stavrogina in the church), though she presumably moves with a gait of some kind. ![]() Though Mademoiselle Lebyadkin is clearly described throughout the novel as being crippled, there is never any real explanation regarding what, exactly, is wrong with her. ![]() ![]() ![]() He ended up writing an apology that was published in the All the Rage column I wrote for, and we stayed in touch. Earlier that year he made some impulsive comments about Frank Miller and I offered him some unsolicited advice on how to handle the potential fallout. TCJ had asked him to do an interview, but he insisted I be the one to conduct it because we had become friendly in the months prior. In 2007 I spent weeks interviewing Darwyn on the phone for the cover interview in The Comics Journal #285. ![]() I never met Darwyn Cooke in person, but nine years ago he offered me a magic wish. ![]() |