11.   Cioran lived reclusively in a simple Left Bank apartment, frequenting the area around the Luxembourg Gardens and avoiding the company of other literary figures.

12.   Countless thousands of professionals, literary figures, university professors, teachers and physicians were hauled before mass rallies for political struggle that often included beatings and torture.

13.   Divided into geographic areas, the home turf of each literary figure is nicely evoked by a guest writer.

14.   Dorothy West was a tiny, brown lady, but after two decades of silence, she had become an important literary figure, once more.

15.   Ernest Hemingway is the most-written-about American literary figure of our exhausted century.

16.   He maintained that apartment solely for musicales and lavish parties, where musicians, literary figures and politicians mingled.

17.   He is a literary figure offered up like Mark Twain, an author rediscovered by every generation of teen-agers.

18.   It was the first in memory to be named for a literary figure.

19.   Literary figures and spies crowd into darkened hotel lounges and cubbyhole bars.

20.   Mailer and other New York literary figures sponsored Abbott, whose prison writing had caught their attention.