Diary

Maddox, Brenda, New Statesman (1996)

BRENDA MADDOX

The film of my book was never going to get less than an "18", with its lovingly photographed copulation

A writer's life is like a mafioso's: long periods of waiting punctuated by short bursts of excitement. Last week saw one of those bursts. First, to Paris in a spousal capacity, for the French publication of my husband's What Remains to be Discovered, which is now Ce Qu'il Reste [grave{a}} D[acute{e}]ouvrir and gallicises the simple declarative sentence -- "There was." -- as "Eh oui!"

Continuing the mundane travail of the author, I search for 16 avenue de la Motte-Picquet, the 1950 address of the subject of my next book, the DNA scientist Rosalind Franklin. A firm believer in the Richard Holmes Footsteps school of biography, I emerge from the M[acute{e}]tro …

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Publication information: Article title: Diary. Contributors: Maddox, Brenda - Author. Magazine title: New Statesman (1996). Volume: 129. Issue: 4482 Publication date: April 17, 2000. Page number: 8. © Not available. COPYRIGHT 2000 Gale Group.

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