Please Don’t Put in the Novel That I Died: Olivia Manning’s (Lightly) Fictionalized Novels
“I don’t want fame when I am dead,” Olivia Manning once complained. “I want it now.” Manning, the British novelist who died in 1980, carried grudges: never made the Booker shortlist, never got a “solo review” in the Sunday papers,
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