Robert Shaw's five novels mix unusual and adventurous plots with solid and serious themes. Though The Man in the Glass Booth (1967), which he adapted as a successful play, is his best-known novel, The Sun Doctor (1961) is perhaps richer. Asked by...

Robert Shaw, actor, playwright, and novelist, felt that the literary establishment would never give him serious attention as a writer as long as he remained an actor. According to Shaw, the critics "still think actors are very effeminate and stupid.......

People decisively favor letting their public schools provide birth control to students, but they also voice misgivings that divide them along generational, income and racial lines, a poll showed.Sixty-seven percent support giving contraceptives to students, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll. About as many —...