Bel Ami the London College of Music. The music and lyrics were written by Alex Loveless. John Braine, the English novelist, stated that his favourite author was Guy de Maupassant and that his first novel, "Room at the Top" (1957), was based on "Bel Ami", but 'the critics didn't pick it up'. Bel Ami Bel Ami is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled "Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel" first appeared in 1903. The story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor former cavalry
Robert Cohen (novelist) Robert Cohen (novelist) Robert Cohen (born 1957) is an American novelist and short fiction writer. Cohen grew up in Westfield, New Jersey. He attended UC Berkeley and subsequently received his MFA from Columbia University. Cohen's themes center around issues of contemporary identity and transcendence. His writing has been praised as "wild and ingenious" by "The New York Times", "formidable" by "The Atlantic Monthly", and "ruefully funny" by the "San Francisco Chronicle." DG Meyers of "A Commonplace Blog" writes, "Sentence by sentence, Robert Cohen is perhaps the best prose stylist of any American novelist now writing." His first novel, "The Organ