Volume 42, Number 15 · October 5, 1995
Adam's Rib
By Nadine Gordimer
What writer of fiction has not been affronted, when faced with journalists asking on which living personage this or that character is based? What writer has not read, in a review of her or his book, that so-and-so is a portrait of such and such, and what writer has not been subjected to the curiosity of friends, acquaintances, and even total strangers who would like to have their prurient guessing-game confirmed, a bull's eye scored on the writer as target?
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