I think nu-be is saying that there was an author who wrote a novel that was a gigantic palindrome (not an anagram). I don't know if it is true or not but supposedly the author's name was Sydney Yendys, whose name seems altogether too convenient. But this isn't the same as the French author who wrote a novel without an "e" (Georges Perec called "Disparition" ... note the irony of his name... he couldn't publish his novel totally without an "e" without leaving his own name off the title page), so perhaps there were two obsessed novelists. And, no, I don't know any of this stuff. It is leavings from the Internet and could all be bogus. :)