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- From: mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Publishing Children's Books?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.165144.27911@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 16:51:44 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.125736.18573@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <1992Sep9.201123.15884@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca> <BuD751.G6B@unx.sas.com>
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- In article <BuD751.G6B@unx.sas.com> saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski) writes:
- >
- >Let's not sell Graham Greene short (though I'm sure Marcy wasn't doing
- >that). Producing quality work across many different genres is a talent I
- >can only envy. Anybody who does this deserves some special recognition.
- >I suspect Greene would have a few things to say about being mentioned as
- >a dilettante who once dabbled in unimportant children's literature
- >(where writing is so *easy*), only to later become serious and
- >successful (though I know the original poster didn't mean it this way,
- >either). Either that, or he wouldn't have cared at all.
-
- Quite right, I didn't mean it that way. Greene must have written his
- childrens stuff very late in life. What I know of him, he probably
- wrote them in response (semi-reluctant?) to requests to tell his
- grandchildren stories ("You're a writer aren't you?")
- I certainly wouldn't sell him short though. For my money Graham Greene
- is amongst the best (and also my inspiration). However, I very much
- suspect that he would not have called his children's work 'serious',
- as he distinguished his 'entertainments' from 'serious novels'.
-
- I say this as a matter of general interest, before someone flames me
- for doing down childrens writing.
-
- Nigel
-