Erudite Novelist and Professor Dies of Lung Cancer at 77: “Of more than 20 literary works, his most commercially successful was the novel Mulligan Stew, which was named by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 1979. A reviewer, Malcolm Bradbury, described it as a ‘neo-Joycean concoction’ about a ‘failing, if not failed writer.'” (New York Times )