Talent Is Not Enough

Private Lives in the Imperial City By John Leonard Knopf, 209 pp., $8.95

This is a collection of 69 autobiographical sketches that have been published as thousand-word columns from time to time by Mr. Leonard, a junior staff member at National Review twenty years ago when he was an amiable young man, then the editor of the New York Times Book Review, the author of a handful of novels that were not badly received, and now a columnist and daily book reviewer for the New York Times.

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William F. Rickenbacker

Private Lives in the Imperial City By John Leonard Knopf, 209 pp., $8.95

This is a collection of 69 autobiographical sketches that have been published as thousand-word columns from time to time by Mr. Leonard, a junior staff member at National Review twenty years ago when he was an amiable young man, then the editor of the New York Times Book Review, the author of a handful of novels that were not badly received, and now a columnist and daily book reviewer for the New York Times.