Helprin

I’m still friends with most of the people I gave the book to, and married one of them, so … thank you, Mr. Helprin?

Doctorow, the character discernment of Alice McDermott and the bold whimsy of Mark Helprin.

The novelist Mark Helprin, in a letter to Hart, called Lin “that little fluffball” and said that Hart’s statue had “pulled her chestnuts out of the fire and gave meaning to her otherwise cynical gravestone.”

“Your life is lived with the kind of excitement that your forebears knew only in battle,” as the author Mark Helprin puts it.

Among the dozens of seagoing speakers on board for the sail from New York City to Southampton, England: National Review heavyweights ranging from Rich Lowry and Charles Cooke to Jonah Goldberg and Jim Geraghty; along with former senator Tom Coburn, novelist Mark Helprin and media critic Brent Bozell.