Comments on: GOP Convention

By: RÃ˜B

RÃ˜B — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:39:28 +0000

Don’t forget poets, essayists, and short story…ists?

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:25:41 +0000

It’s to encourage people to Google it and do some research or perhaps even pay a visit to their local library and read about America’s rich history of authors, playwrights and novelists.

By: RÃ˜B

RÃ˜B — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:55:01 +0000

I figure if I could read the essential works by an author without snagging any of his plays, tagging "playwright" onto the end of his moniker is probably something I wouldn't do, is all. It's technically correct, just a little misleading. If we played "name the famous author and playwright" and started listing facts about the one in question, I would probably take a long time to guess him no matter how much some of the clues might give it away, due to the misleading (but again, technically correct) labeling of "playwright."

An author is just one who writes anything. There are nonfiction authors, short story authors, authors of plays, authors of musicals, authors of poems, authors of songs. Novelist is a sub-set of author. If you call someone an author, you probably don't need to add "and playwright," which is a whole 'nother topic of discussion I suppose!

I like how we haven't even typed his name out in this thread yet.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:38:57 +0000

Either way, I did say he was a great American [:B:]author[/:B:] and playwright. I think saying he was an author is enough of a statement to include his novels as part of his achievements.

Or is there a great difference between a novelist and an author?

By: RÃ˜B

RÃ˜B — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:05:09 +0000

True enough, but his novels (and one in particular) are what won him the Nobel Prize in Literature (the first awarded to an American if I’m not mistaken). Also, how many plays did he write, again? Versus how many novels?

Okay, so I just went back to research the Nobel Prize thing, I’m pretty sure he was the first. At least TWO NORWEGIANS won before any Americans did? Jeezsh.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:33:29 +0000

Also, he was both a novelist [:B:]and[/:B:] a playwright.

By: charles

charles — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:17:19 +0000

hehe, another victim claimed by my BBS tags! MUAHAHAHA! [:bope:][:bope:][:bope:]

By: RÃ˜B

RÃ˜B — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:58:56 +0000

Wow, the tag is still open. [/:B:]I think I’ve closed it now.

By: RÃ˜B

RÃ˜B — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:57:37 +0000

Crapfire, I knew I’d muck up that weird fake HTML.

By: RÃ˜B

RÃ˜B — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:57:06 +0000

I think it was a novelist that said that, not a playwright. I also believe he said [:B:]the[/:B:] flag, not [:B:]a[:/B:] flag.