91.   He later spent years as a university professor, writing novels instead of plays whenever he could find the time.

92.   He wanted to write a novel about Christmas in America and all the emotional associations attached to that holiday.

93.   He wanted to write a novel in French because, he hoped, it would bring him closer to his adopted homeland.

94.   He was trying to write genius novels, like Joyce.

95.   He wrote novels under his own name and the pseudonyms Albert Conroy, Al Conroy, Nick Quarry, Anthony Rome, Ian MacAlister and J.D. Christilian.

96.   He says he wrote his novels to give his son a voice, and now Hikari Oe has found his own.

97.   He wrote a novel about it seven years ago to remind himself of the event, and of its importance to a small town of poor, courageous people.

98.   His wife, Cathy, who helped him write the novel, sobbed quietly into a white handkerchief.

99.   His wife recalls that he came home from work one day with a stack of typing paper and announced he was going to write a novel.

100.   His real goal, though, was to write novels.