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On Jan. 18 A Rappahannock County residents willyhave an opportunity which journalism students would envy: a lecture by James J. Kilpatrick on “The Writer’s Art.”
Although he’s listed in Who’s Who in America as a “newspaperman,” that’s like calling pate de fois gras chopped liver.
Mr. Kilpatrick began his career in 1941 as a reporter for the Richmond News Leaded, becoming chief editorial writer and then editor before leaving the paper in 1967. Since that time his syndicated columns, A Conservative View and The Uses and Misuses of Language, which appearjin jijjO newspapers, have made him one of the most popular columnists in the country.
In talking about writing, Mr. Kilpatrick uses examples of both the best and the worst he has seen during his career. He names Shana Alexander, his opponent on the popular Point-Counterpoint television commentary, as one master of imagery using the English language.
€«r writers, Mr. Kilpatrick’s talks are lessons in their craft which should not be missed. For others interested in English, they are enthralling because of Mr. Kilpatrick’s mastery of the language, as well as his wonderful anecdotes, collected over his nearly 50 years in journalism.
He recalls his youthful fascination with libraries, which shaped his lifelong love affair with English. He su££ests that would-be writers “read, read, read”; that only by reading, and writing, can the eaf-
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