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Just then Michael was exercised about a letter he had received from Michael Scammell, Arthur Koestler’s authorised biographer, raising doubts that his subject had actually raped Jill. Certain of her friends had expressed their skepticism to Scammell, he reported. Michael pronounced Scammell’s name so that it sounded to me like Scoundrel.

Carl Rollyson

Just then Michael was exercised about a letter he had received from Michael Scammell, Arthur Koestler’s authorised biographer, raising doubts that his subject had actually raped Jill. Certain of her friends had expressed their skepticism to Scammell, he reported. Michael pronounced Scammell’s name so that it sounded to me like Scoundrel.

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About Carl Rollyson

Carl E. Rollyson is an American biographer and professor of journalism at Baruch College, City University of New York.