Capote's defense was damaged when Lee Radziwill refused to testify on Capote's behalf. Despite her prior deposition, Radziwill said, "I do not recall ever discussing with Truman Capote the incident or the evening which I understand is the subject of this lawsuit." Ultimately, Capote offered a pro forma apology and the suit was settled out of court. Vidal responded to news of Capote's death by calling it "a wise career move". Because of the success of Tom Wolfe's best selling novel, "Bonfire of the Vanities", there was widespread interest in his next book. This novel took him more than 11 years to complete; "A Man in Full" was published in 1998. The book's reception was not universally favorable, though it received glowing reviews in "Time", "Newsweek", "The Wall Street Journal", and elsewhere. Noted author John Updike wrote a critical review for "The New Yorker", complaining that the novel "amounts to entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest aspirant form." His comments sparked an intense war of words in the print and broadcast media among Wolfe and Updike, and authors John Irving and Norman Mailer who also entered the fray, with Irving saying in a television interview, "He's not a writer...You couldn't teach that bleeping bleep to bleeping freshmen in a bleeping freshman English class!." In 2001, Wolfe published an essay referring to these three authors as "My Three Stooges" which he reprinted in his collection "Hooking Up". In it, he implies that Updike, Mailer, and Irving were jealous of his success because their own recent books had not been bestsellers. In 1927, Theodore Dreiser and Sinclair Lewis's soon-to-be wife Dorothy Thompson spent some time together while they were both visitng Russia. The next year, Thompson published "The New Russia". Several months later, Dreiser published "Dreiser Looks at Russia". Thompson and Lewis accused Dreiser of plagiarizing portions of Thompson's work, which Dreiser denied and claimed instead that Thompson had used material of his. In June 1930, Lewis and Dreiser were in contention for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Lewis won, the first American to be awarded the prize. Several months after the ceremony, the writers encountered each other at the Metropolitan Club at a dinner honoring Boris Pilnyak. After much drinking, Lewis rose to give the welcome speech, but instead declared he "did not care to speak in the presence of a man who has stolen three thousand words from my wife's book."