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And if it were a woman, who would that woman be?” “It’s always the men who are the instigators in these crimes,” she says. This got Downing thinking about gender reversal. “Ultimately, the wife let her go and ended up testifying against her husband.” The inspiration? “I saw this documentary about a couple who kidnapped a woman and held her captive for years,” Downing says. The group was especially taken with Downing’s Millicent character, a suburban wife and mother who harbors and indulges some extremely terrifying impulses. It was, she says, “a lot about the publishing industry that just made me give up.”īut two years ago, Downing joined a local writing group that was very encouraging. Early on, she attended a writing conference in New Orleans (where she lives now, a transplant from the Bay Area). 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He is best known for his writings about World War I and II, which explore what he felt was the gap between the romantic myth and reality of war he made a "career out of refusing to disguise it or elevate it". Returning to the US, Fussell wrote extensively and held several faculty positions, most prominently at Rutgers University (1955–1983) and at the University of Pennsylvania (1983–1994). Fussell served in the 103rd Infantry Division during World War II and was wounded in fighting in France. His writings cover a variety of topics, from scholarly works on eighteenth-century English literature to commentary on America's class system. ![]() (22 March 1924 – ) was an American cultural and literary historian, author and university professor. ![]() |