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	David Lodge (author) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Lodge (born January 28, 1935 at London, England) is a British author.
		Lodge studied at University College London, obtaining a BA in 1955 and an MA in 1959.
		Lodge often satirises academia in general, and the humanities in particular, in his novels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Lodge_(author) (431 words)

	David Lodge (author) Summary
		David Lodge was born on January 28, 1935, to working-class Catholic parents, William Frederick...
		David Lodge is the author of some of the most clever, ambitious, and funny fiction written in England during the past four decades.
		David Lodge is the author of some of the most clever, ambitious, and funny fiction written in England during the past quarter century.
	www.bookrags.com /David_Lodge_(author) (342 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Author, Author \| David Lodge
		Author, Author, David Lodge's brilliant fictional portrait of Henry James, begins on James's deathbed as the exhausted and disoriented author is about to be awarded Britain's highest civilian honor, the Order of Merit.
		Author, Author, however, is very much more than simply a re-creation of James's failure in the theater.
		David Lodge is the author of eleven novels and a novella, including Changing Places, Small World (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Nice Work (also shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Paradise News, Therapy, and Thinks.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/author_author.html (2113 words)

	David Lodge
		Lodge's suburban upbringing in a traditional Catholic family in the austere conditions of postwar England is reflected in his early fiction.
		David Lodge has enjoyed an unusual dual status in English literary life over the past four decades, a leading comic novelist who is also one of the foremost literary critics of his generation, to date producing twelve novels and nine volumes of critical analysis, reviews and essays.
		Lodge's special creation is Rummidge; as the author's note to Nice Work explains, it is 'an imaginary city, with imaginary universities and imaginary factories...which occupies, for the purposes of fiction, the space where Birmingham is to be found on maps'.
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/?p=auth62 (2454 words)

	Review: Author, Author by David Lodge \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		David Lodge's new novel is about the perils and compulsions of authorship, and the ironies of popular and critical success.
		Lodge's Author, Author shares a number of scenes with Colm Tóibín's The Master, published six months ago; in fact one particular scene is shared with a third novel, Emma Tennant's wider-ranging Felony (2002), which investigated James's Aspern Papers and its sources.
		Lodge sustains the Jamesian point of view for most of Author, Author, framing it with two deathbed chapters in which consciousness is dispersed between different attendant figures.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,,1295981,00.html (1251 words)

	Amazon.com: Reviews for Author, Author: Books: David Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Lodge makes the fatal mistake, one third of the way through the book, of slowing his pace down and devoting approximately fifty pages of the book to one day in Henry James's life - a day that Lodge deems particularly important, though as a reader I was not convinced of the day's weight.
		Author Author, while totally succeeding as an intricate recounting of Henry James's halcyon days as one of England's most famous men of letters, is also a vividly creative tale of penmanship, literary irony, the collision of values, and the transformation and courage it takes to reinvent oneself artistically.
		Lodge paints a portrait of a society and a culture that is undergoing profound social and artistic changes.
	www.amazon.com /Author-David-Lodge/dp/customer-reviews/0670033499 (2820 words)

	Author, Author by David Lodge: Reviews
		Lodge is very deft in two aspects of his reconstruction: the sexual and the contextual.
		Lodge's take on James' theatrical adventures is suspenseful and empathetic, and his re-creation of James' colorful milieu, including his quirky family, is vivid.
		Lodge's portrait of James is both unappealing and undramatic, though the fault probably lies more with the subject than with Lodge's efforts as the novelist.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/lodgedavid/authorauthor (586 words)

	David Lodge Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		David Lodge was born on January 28, 1935, to working-class Catholic parents, William Frederick Lodge(a saxophonist and clarinetist in dance bands) and Rosalie Murphy Lodge.
		Lodge's early novels, The Picturegoers (1960) and Ginger, You're Barmy (1962), reflect his class-consciousness and Catholicism and show the influence of Catholic novelists Graham Greene and Evelyn Waugh, as well as that of the "Angry Young Men," the circle of 1950s writers who attacked the deeply-ingrained British class system.
		Lodge called the novel a mixture of Bildungsroman (or "coming-of-age" tale) and "the Jamesian international novel of conflicting ethical and cultural codes." Emotionally scarred by the London blitz, the teenaged Timothy Young travels to Germany to visit his sister, who works for the U.S. Army of Occupation.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/david-lodge (1261 words)

	Amazon.ca: Author Author: Books: David Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Lodge can't help but launch into extended biographical and critical disquisitions but then, as though to leaven his erudition, renders his hero a bit too charmingly eccentric.
		The novel "Author, Author" is an ambitious departure from David Lodge's humourous tales of academia, but the novel works, and it works quite brilliantly.
		David Lodge drops the names of the famous and the infamous of the fin-de-siecle period lavishly throughout the text--George Bernard Shaw is seen as a hard-working theatre critic: "I am incorruptible.
	www.amazon.ca /Author-David-Lodge/dp/0143036092 (1028 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Author, Author: Books: David Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The personification of revered author Henry James is a triumph for David Lodge.
		Lodge avoids the ploy of some historical novelists, who name drop famous characters in order to define the period and score credibility points; he slips in appearances by well-known James' acquaintances and historical events with consumate skill and a total lack of artifice.
		Lodge deals sympathetically with James's perceived failure of his work, his intense craving for reward both adulatory and financial that always seemed within reach, be it in periodicals, books or the stage and that yet was always just out of reach or dashed by events outside his control.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Author-David-Lodge/dp/0436205270 (1501 words)

	Swans Commentary: David Lodge's "Author, Author," by Charles Marowitz - cmarow39
		Almost as imaginative as James himself is David Lodge, whose novel, Author, Author, subtly fictionalizes many of the known facts of James's life in order to give us a glimpse of the inner self which is excluded from much of his oeuvre, even in those autobiographical reminiscences where one would expect to find them.
		I haven't read enough of Lodge's previous books to know whether the diction he employs in Author, Author is characteristic of the novelist or a deliberate attempt to reproduce the fastidious and restrained language we associate with James himself.
		The cast appear sullen and non-communicative; the audience, obstreperous and restless, but the cries of author, author ring out and James is persuaded to step out of the wings for a curtain call only to become the victim of a vicious barrage of boos and catcalls which reduces him to smithereens.
	www.swans.com /library/art12/cmarow39.html (1736 words)

	Kirkville: Book Review: Author, Author, by David Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The second, David Lodge's Author, Author, deserves much greater attention, but since Lodge's goal was to write a novel, not a pamphlet proving Henry James' homosexuality, it has not gotten the same amount of exposure, and, alas, does not seem to be in the running for any major prizes.
		Author, Author begins at the end, as Henry James is near his death, before heading backwards to examine part of the Master's life.
		Lodge is clearly a fan of Henry James' work, and the book ends up as a homage to it, almost a love letter to James (in the platonic manner).
	www.mcelhearn.com /article.php?story=20041015100428500&mode=print (491 words)

	David Lodge/Author (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Author of Sir Winston Churchill - A Legend in His Own Time, Sir Philip Sidney, A Renaissance Man, David Lodge is now a naturalized American citizen but he was born and raised in Manchester, England.
		David and his wife, Sherrie, are both active in the theater and regularly portray turn-of-the century living history characters, GreatStone Castle owners, W.H.C. and Ida Goode.
		In 1997/98, David authored three of eight Society's teacher's guides covering the topics of Immigration, Indians and Black history.
	www.shelbycountyhistory.org /schs/archives/authors/dlodgeauthorA.htm (195 words)

	David Lodge : Author, Author : Book Review
		Writing fiction, however artful, was inevitably to some degree an exposure of the author’s own self, his own soul, and the fewer facts about one’s private life that one’s friends and the general public had in their possession, by the light of which to make comparisons and inferences, the better.
		Lodge explores the psyche of his subject- Henry James --a quiet, introspective man who had many acquaintances but only a few close friends, and he rarely placed any true confidences into the laps of even those he counted part of his innermost circle.
		Author, Author is a glittering presentation of the literary talent and culture of the times.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /history/lodge.htm (1092 words)

	Amazon.de: Author, Author: English Books: David Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Since the death of Malcom Bradbury, David Lodge remains unquestionably the finest comic novelist working in the English language – with fierce intelligence matching the sardonic wit.
		Author, Author is not quite a new departure (the great novelist Henry James was a presence in Lodge’s much-acclaimed Thinks…), but here The Master is the central character in a brilliantly vivid picture of the man and his times.
		Author, Author begins with the Great Man’s death, surrounded by worried servants (struggling to cope with his growing irrationality); then we are shown his remarkable life, including his friendship with the affable Punch illustrator George Du Maurier.
	www.amazon.de /Author-David-Lodge/dp/0670033499 (411 words)

	David Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Interview polls Lodge on many of his current views on a variety of topics, including the future of the novel, the impact of winning an award on the writer's craft, changes in the world of publishing, and so on.
		David Lodge (1935-), Literary Heritage: A lightly hyperlinked profile of the writer followed by a bibliography of works by Lodge and background sources on Lodge available on the internet.
		Interview with David Lodge, Desperado Literature: Lidia Vianu's 1999 interview covers a variety of subjects: Lodge's comedic irony and satire, his views on how to end novels, violence in fiction, his tastes in literary criticism, and much more.
	library.marist.edu /diglib/english/englishliterature/20thc-britauthors/lodge-david.htm (309 words)

	David Lodge
		David Lodge could not be conceived of without his irony.
		In my later work particularly the ironic posture of the implied author towards the story is qualified by a more sympathetic (‘tender’, if you like) attitude towards the characters.
		It is not for me to describe ‘David Lodge’ the implied author of my books – it is for readers and critics.
	lidiavianu.scriptmania.com /david_lodge.htm (2905 words)

	Author, Author - Reviews - www.theage.com.au
		Lodge's wit is scarcely apparent in this text but his own situation, as the late-coming author of Author, Author, is irresistibly funny.
		Tennant, Toibin and Lodge all find an emotional testing point in the story of a middle-aged, solitary and depressed novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson, for whose suicide in Venice James may have been in part to blame.
		Lodge takes a new line in looking at James' friendship during the 1880s and 1890s with the artist and writer George du Maurier.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/10/06/1096949581898.html?from=storyrhs (916 words)

	David Lodge - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		David Lodge at www.contemporarywriters.com - Born in South London on 28 January 1935, Professor David Lodge is a graduate and Honorary Fellow of University...
		Lodge often satirises academia in general, and the humanities in particular,...
		In the 1998 New Years Honours list David Lodge was appointed CBE for his...
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/david-lodge/42921/main (106 words)

	The Social Affairs Unit - Web Review: Author, Author - David Lodge
		David Lodge's career has been marked by no such reverse as that which overtook James on the stage of St. James's Theatre in January 1895.
		Lodge's work as a novelist (and more than a novelist) is plentiful and various, it was with his satires of academic life that he achieved the wide readership and celebrity which James in his own lifetime failed to grasp.
		The Palace of Art is, as Lodge knows, ventilated by the sighs and watered by the tears, not just of those who build it, but also of those whom the builders neglect in the absorption of their task.
	www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk /blog/archives/000180.php (1514 words)

	The Believer - David Lodge's AUTHOR, AUTHOR and Colm Tóibín's THE MASTER
		His life revolved around his writing desk, behind which he spent so much time that when we meet him in Author, Author he is suffering from a bad back, the gout, and a progressing case of what we now call carpal tunnel syndrome.
		Lodge makes these small moments engaging, giving James a humanity and warmth that can be harder to find in James’s own sinuous, formal, demanding prose.
		Jeff Alexander is the author, with Tom Bissell, of Speak, Commentary.
	www.believermag.com /issues/200410/?read=review_lodge_toibin (352 words)

	Amazon.ca: Therapy: Books: David Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		David Lodge is an extremely good writer, and his book is a joy to read.
		Many postmodern novels, a term at which no doubt David Lodge would wince, are structured to allow the reader to impose his own understanding of the facts through intricate structures; but rarely are they deeply engaging.
		By the conclusion Passmore appears to be his old cheeky self (who was already missing as this story began), an uptempo recovery from complacency and scary mid-life crises that parallels a Continental journey from sceptical Denmark to credulous Spain.
	www.amazon.ca /Therapy-David-Lodge/dp/0140249001 (1168 words)

	Amazon.com: Author, Author: Books: David Lodge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Many literary authors have tried to make this Faustian bargain with the Mammon faction, imagining that one good killing at the Hollywood or Broadway box office will free them to produce their principled, deathless, elevated prose.
		Still, it is something of a struggle to imagine Henry James himself descending into this vulgar arena, and the chief virtue of David Lodge's latest novel is that he convincingly shows us "The Master" as he begins to make his sordid, pecuniary calculations.
		Lodge accompanies his subject wisely, sympathetically, but never indulgently.
	www.amazon.com /Author-David-Lodge/dp/0670033499 (3333 words)

	Book Reviews - Author, Author by David Lodge
		Author, Author, like Colm Toibin's The Master, tells of a particular period of Henry James' life.
		David Lodge's novel takes place in the last twenty years of the 19th century when James' fortunes were at their lowest, culminating in his largest debacle, the opening and closing of his play Guy Domville.
		The Telegraph says, "Author, Author is a poignant, magnificently shaped expression of affection for a great writer who was also a great human being.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /author_author (206 words)

	clew's reviews: a book log: Author, Author, David Lodge
		Lodge should be able to draw it out, not necessarily by writing...
		Lodge should be able to draw it out, not necessarily by writing like James.
		Lodge has instead produced a biography that takes more pains than liberties.
	www.tenhand.com /clew/blog/archives/000656.html (118 words)

	Author, Author by David Lodge
		The protagonist is the American novelist Henry James, and the focus is on James’s friendship with George Du Maurier, the famous Punch artist and illustrator, and on his literary middle years – the 1880s.
		Thronged with vividly drawn characters, Author, Author presents a fascinating panorama of literary and theatrical life in late Victorian England, which in many ways, foreshadowed today’s cultural mix of art, commerce and publicity.
		David Lodge has written several books of literary criticism.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780436205279&view=print (198 words)

	David Lodge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		David Lodge (actor) (1921–2003), a British character actor
		David Lodge (author) (born 1935), a British author
		This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same human name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Lodge (80 words)

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