Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

He was survived by his fourth wife (of 28 years) Virginia Heiserman Solotaroff. He left the book business with a parting shot at what he labeled 'the literary-industrial complex. As the literary climate altered radically there was a distinct shift among writers and editors from a preoccupation with values as the ground of experience to a preoccupation with experience as the ground of values—a shift that was of course to be felt everywhere in America as the decade of opposition and revision careened along.