Posted on May 18, 2011
She is a most youthful 83, with starry blue eyes, a carefree nest of white hair and a light and musical Viennese accent. And she is still writing. Three years after “Shakespeare’s Kitchen” was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, she is in the final revisions of a new novel, “And If They Have Not Died,” a fable of doctors and patients and age, but not her age, the next stage — extra-long life, the kind made possible by modern medicine.