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The Age of Innocence The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by the famous American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine "Pictorial Review". Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for "Main Street", the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "established Wharton as the American 'First
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Picture or Television. The film score for "The Age of Innocence" was composed by Elmer Bernstein, who had previously collaborated with Scorsese on "Cape Fear" (1991). The Age of Innocence (1993 film) The Age of Innocence is a 1993 American historical romantic drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay, an adaptation of the 1920 novel of the same name by Edith Wharton, was written by Scorsese and Jay Cocks. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, and Miriam Margolyes, and was released by Columbia Pictures. "The Age of Innocence" was released theatrically on September 19, 1993 by
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is expecting a child. Ellen and Newland part ways, Newland vowing to be a better husband to his wife May. This film is now lost. In February 1956, Jack Warner sold the rights to all of his pre-December 1949 films to Associated Artists Productions. In 1969, UA donated 16mm prints of some Warner Bros. films from outside United States. No copies of "The Age of Innocence" are known to exist. The Age of Innocence (1924 film) The Age of Innocence is a 1924 American silent film directed by Wesley Ruggles. It is the first film adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel
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The Age of Innocence (1934 film) The Age of Innocence (1934) is an American drama film directed by Philip Moeller and starring Irene Dunne, John Boles and Lionel Atwill. The film is an adaptation of the novel "The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton, set in the fashionable New York society of the 1870s. Prolific on Broadway, Philip Moeller directed only two films: this, and the 1935 "Break of Hearts" with Katharine Hepburn. The novel was also adapted in a 1924 silent film version starring Beverly Bayne and a 1993 film version that starred Michelle Pfeiffer. A 1928 Broadway stage
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The Age of Innocence (1993 film) The Age of Innocence is a 1993 American historical romantic drama film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay, an adaptation of the 1920 novel of the same name by Edith Wharton, was written by Scorsese and Jay Cocks. The film stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, and Miriam Margolyes, and was released by Columbia Pictures. "The Age of Innocence" was released theatrically on September 19, 1993 by Columbia Pictures. It received critical acclaim, winning the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and being nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Winona Ryder),
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The Age of Innocence (1924 film) The Age of Innocence is a 1924 American silent film directed by Wesley Ruggles. It is the first film adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel "The Age of Innocence". It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. Newland Archer is engaged to May Mingott of a prominent New York family. Shortly after the engagement is announce, Newland finds himself attracted to May’s older married cousin Countess Ellen Olenska. After his marriage to May, Newland and Ellen agree to run away together. Before this can happen, May visits her husband’s lover and informs her that she
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The Age of Innocence The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by the famous American author Edith Wharton. It was her twelfth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine "Pictorial Review". Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for "Main Street", the judges, in rejecting his book on political grounds, "established Wharton as the American 'First
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era where female novelists were still rare to find. However, despite being a female novelist, her novels achieved global success and are even considered by many American classics today. She was deemed to have been a very prolific writer despite having not published her first novel until she was 40 years of age. In her lifetime, she wrote twenty three novels, which includes the age of innocence among many others. Her writings included three collections of poetry, sixteen short story collections and nine volumes of non-fiction, which majority were based around interior design and architecture. This is a list of
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the color white (biblical paintings and Hollywood films depict Jesus wearing a white tunic). A "loss of innocence" is a common theme in fiction, pop culture, and realism. It is often seen as an integral part of coming of age. It is usually thought of as an experience or period in a person's life that leads to a greater awareness of evil, pain and/or suffering in the world around them. Examples of this theme include songs like "American Pie", poetry like William Blake's collection Songs of Innocence and of Experience and novels like "To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Catcher in
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John" (1910). Novels featuring a gentleman adventurer were popular between the wars, exemplified by the series of H. C. McNeile with "Bulldog Drummond" (1920), and Leslie Charteris, whose many books chronicled the adventures of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint". The medieval scholar M. R. James wrote highly regarded ghost stories in contemporary settings. This was called 'the Golden Age of Detective Fiction'. Dame Agatha Christie, a writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Other female writers dubbed "Queens of crime" include Dorothy L. Sayers
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Chris Kraus (American writer) Chris Kraus (born 1955) is an American writer and filmmaker. Her novels include "I Love Dick", "Aliens & Anorexia", "Torpor", and "Summer of Hate". "Video Green", Kraus' first non-fiction book examines the explosion of late 1990s art by high-profile graduate programs that catapulted Los Angeles into the center of the international art world. Her films include "Gravity & Grace", "How To Shoot A Crime", and "The Golden Bowl, or, Repression". Kraus was born in New York City and spent her childhood in Connecticut and New Zealand. After obtaining a BA at a young age from Victoria
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in her writings. Though she continued to write and publish works into her old age, the popularity of Waller's particular brand of fiction declined after World War One with the public and critics alike. Not content with writing over twenty novels, Waller also patented a foot warmer. Waller died at the age of 83 in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1938. Mary Ella Waller Mary Ella Waller (March 1, 1855 – June 14, 1938) was an American writer and educator from New England whose work encompassed children's stories, translations of German verse and more than twenty novels. Waller was born in Boston,
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Christopher Cook (writer) Christopher LaVaughn Cook (born August 3, 1952) is an American writer whose writing styles and genres include journalism, non-fiction, scriptwriting and fiction, including short stories, novellas and novels. Cook is the author of many short stories and two noted fiction books, "Robbers" and "Screen Door Jesus & Other Stories". He was chosen by Barnes & Noble as part of its Discover Great New Writers program in 2001. His books are available in foreign editions, and his stories have been included in anthologies such as Houghton Mifflin's "The Best American Mystery Stories 2003". His memoir essay “Full Moon
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Barbara Parker (writer) Barbara Parker (January 28, 1947 – March 7, 2009) was an American mystery writer. She wrote 12 novels, the first of which, "Suspicion of Innocence", was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first mystery novel by an American author. Parker was on the national board of the Mystery Writers of America and was the chair of its membership committee for two years. Parker was born in Columbia, South Carolina and lived in North Carolina before moving with her family to Florida. There she attended the University of South Florida, majoring in theatre arts,
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The Sea in Boca Raton, Florida. Barbara Parker - Florida Suspicion Series Other Barbara Parker (writer) Barbara Parker (January 28, 1947 – March 7, 2009) was an American mystery writer. She wrote 12 novels, the first of which, "Suspicion of Innocence", was a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best first mystery novel by an American author. Parker was on the national board of the Mystery Writers of America and was the chair of its membership committee for two years. Parker was born in Columbia, South Carolina and lived in North Carolina before moving with her family to
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as "National Velvet" (1960), "The Outer Limits" ("The Human Factor", 1963), and "Daniel Boone" (1964-70). His science fiction novels include "Dark Dominion" (1954), "Beyond Eden" (1955), and "Occam's Razor" (1957). He also wrote six novels outside the genre. Duncan wrote the mini-sequel" " to George Pal's 1960 movie "The Time Machine". David Duncan (writer) David Duncan (February 17, 1913 – died December 27, 1999, Everett, Washington) was an American screenwriter and novelist. He began writing professionally at the age of 33 after about ten years in government. His screenwriting career began in 1953 with the release of his first film
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innocence. In 2011, Fanning was given the Defenders of the Innocent Award by the Illinois Innocence Project for getting the confession from Sells. In 2006, her book "Written in Blood" received an Edgar Award nomination. Fanning has been interviewed for CBS's "48 Hours Mystery" in November 2009 and Investigation Discovery in 2010 and 2011. CBS's "Crimesider" column featured her in a story about the Casey Anthony case. Diane Fanning Diane Fanning is an American crime writer and author who writes nonfiction and mystery novels. Fanning was born Diane Lynn Butcher in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from Perry Hall High School,
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teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston and in the Bennington College Writing Seminars. Askold Melnyczuk Askold Melnyczuk (born December 12, 1954) is an American writer whose publications include novels, essays, poems, memoir, and translations. Among his works are the novels "What Is Told, Ambassador of the Dead, House of Widows" and "Excerpt from Smedley's Secret Guide to World Literature". His work has been translated into German, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. Melnyczuk also founded the journal AGNI (magazine) and Arrowsmith Press (2006). Melnyczuk was born in Irvington, New Jersey. He was raised in Roselle Park and Cranford, New Jersey, twenty
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Askold Melnyczuk Askold Melnyczuk (born December 12, 1954) is an American writer whose publications include novels, essays, poems, memoir, and translations. Among his works are the novels "What Is Told, Ambassador of the Dead, House of Widows" and "Excerpt from Smedley's Secret Guide to World Literature". His work has been translated into German, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. Melnyczuk also founded the journal AGNI (magazine) and Arrowsmith Press (2006). Melnyczuk was born in Irvington, New Jersey. He was raised in Roselle Park and Cranford, New Jersey, twenty miles south of New York City. His younger sister, Hanna, is a painter and
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and "Doctors' Wives", made into the 1971 film of the same name starring Dyan Cannon and Gene Hackman. Other books by Slaughter include "The Purple Quest", "Surgeon, U.S.A.", "Tomorrow's Miracle" and "The Scarlet Cord". Slaughter's last novel, "Transplant", was published in 1987. Slaughter died May 17, 2001 in Jacksonville, Florida. William DuBois was a silent writer with Slaughter on 27 of Slaughter's historical novels. Frank G. Slaughter Frank Gill Slaughter (February 25, 1908 – May 17, 2001), pen-name Frank G. Slaughter, pseudonym C.V. Terry, was an American novelist and physician whose books sold more than 60 million copies. His novels
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(1997), and "The Amber Spyglass" (2000). It follows the coming-of-age of two children as they wander through a series of parallel universes against a backdrop of epic events. Neil Gaiman is a writer of science fiction, fantasy short stories and novels, whose notable works include "Stardust" (1998), "Coraline" (2002), "The Graveyard Book" (2009), and "The Sandman" series. Alan Moore's works include "Watchmen", "V for Vendetta" set in a dystopian future UK, "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", and "From Hell", speculating on the identity and motives of Jack the Ripper. Douglas Adams wrote the five-volume science fiction comedy series "The Hitchhiker's
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Karen Tei Yamashita Karen Tei Yamashita (, Born January 8, 1951 in Oakland, California) is a Japanese-American writer. She is Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches creative writing and Asian American literature. Her works, several of which contain elements of magic realism, include novels "I Hotel" (2010), "Circle K Cycles" (2001), "Tropic of Orange" (1997), "Brazil-Maru" (1992), and "Through the Arc of the Rain Forest" (1990). Yamashita's novels emphasize the necessity of polyglot, multicultural communities in an increasingly globalized age, even as they destabilize orthodox notions of borders and national/ethnic identity. She has also
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fine writers who, like Thomas Hardy, were not modernists. Novelists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932), whose novels include "The Forsyte Saga" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of "The Old Wives' Tale" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); E.M. Forster (1879–1970). The most popular British writer of the early years of the 20th century was arguably Rudyard Kipling, a highly versatile writer of novels, short stories and poems, and to date the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). H. G. Wells
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the concerns and preoccupations of a growingly complex Australian society." "Her fine characterizations, touches of humor, and insight into youth give Mrs. Spence's novels appeal far beyond her own land." "Eleanor Spence: Observer of Family Life" in "Innocence and Experience: Essays on Contemporary Australian Children's Writers" (1981), by Walter McVitty, pp 67–98. This is an overview and analysis of Spence's work, including a brief biographical sketch and a bibliography of her books. "Eleanor Spence is a writer with whose work increased familiarity breeds content—beyond the apparent blandness a richly rewarding experience awaits the reader who is prepared to give it
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Bret Easton Ellis Bret Easton Ellis (born March 7, 1964) is an American author, screenwriter, and short story writer. His works have been translated into 27 languages. He was at first regarded as one of the so-called literary Brat Pack, which also included Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney. He is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique, as a writer, is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. Ellis employs a technique of linking novels with common, recurring characters. At the age of 21, his first novel, the controversial bestseller "Less Than Zero" (1985), was published by
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episode of the series. Dunn is also a novelist whose works include 'The Big Love' (2005), 'Secrets to Happiness' (2009), and 'The Arrangement' (2017). Her books have been translated into 19 different languages. Dunn is a member of the all-female television writer group “The Ladies Room”, which also includes Vanessa McCarthy, Stephanie Birkitt, and Julie Bean. The group was founded in July 2016. Dunn is married to former New York Observer executive editor Peter Stevenson. They married in 2007. Sarah Dunn (author) Sarah Dunn (born 1970) is an American author and television writer. She is known for her novels 'The
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mystery of our age, with a storyline that explores the role organized crime may have had in the assassination of a charismatic young President." Mark Winegardner Mark Winegardner (born November 24, 1961) is an American writer born and raised in Bryan, Ohio. His novels include "The Godfather Returns", "Crooked River Burning", and "The Veracruz Blues". He published a collection of short stories, "That's True of Everybody", in 2002. His newest novel, "The Godfather's Revenge", was published in November 2006 by Putnam. His "Godfather" novels continue the story of the Corleone family depicted in Mario Puzo's "The Godfather". He graduated Phi
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Brian Cleeve Brian Brendon Talbot Cleeve (22 November 1921 – 11 March 2003) was a writer, whose published works include twenty-one novels and over a hundred short stories. He was also an award-winning broadcaster on RTÉ television. Son of an Irish father and English mother, he was born and raised in England. He lived in South Africa during the early years of National Party rule and was expelled from the country because of his opposition to apartheid. In his early thirties he moved to Ireland where he lived for the remainder of his life. In late middle age he underwent
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular success, fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critical acclaim until after his death. Perhaps the most notable member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s, Fitzgerald is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He finished four novels: "This Side of Paradise", "The Beautiful and Damned", "The Great Gatsby", and "Tender Is
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to 1981. After that marriage ended in divorce she remarried, to writer/film director Paul Schrader in 1983. They have a daughter and a son. Mary Beth Hurt Mary Beth Hurt (born September 26, 1946) is an American actress of stage and screen. She is a three-time Tony Award-nominated actress. Notable films in which Hurt has appeared include "Interiors" (1978), "The World According to Garp" (1982), "The Age of Innocence" (1993), and "Six Degrees of Separation" (1993). She has also collaborated with her husband, filmmaker Paul Schrader, in such films as "Light Sleeper" (1992) and "Affliction" (1997). Hurt was born Mary
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the fraud with which he was charged he always maintained his innocence. Julian Hawthorne Julian Hawthorne (June 22, 1846 – July 21, 1934) was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mystery/detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies, and histories. As a journalist, he reported on the Indian Famine for "Cosmopolitan" magazine and the Spanish–American War for the "New York Journal". Julian Hawthorne was the second child of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne. He was born June 22, 1846, at 14 Mall Street in Salem, Massachusetts.
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Claude Brami Claude Brami, (born 20 Decembre 1948 in Tunis, is a French writer, winner of the 1982 Prix des libraires. During the 1970s, he wrote a dozen detective novels under the pseudonyms Christopher Diable and Julien Sauvage. He was a great lover of detective novels from the age of eleven. In 1968, while still a student, he wrote his first book. "La Lune du fou" appeared in 1973 under the pseudonym Julien Sauvage. Fifteen police novels will follow under this pseudonym, whose series devoted to the exploits of the adventurer Bruno Campara, nicknamed the Condottiere and three novels of
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for best first book for the Asia-Pacific region in 1997. Followed by "Girl in the Moon Circle", "Portrait of a Young Artist in Contemplation", and other novels and poetry collections. She influenced new generations of Samoan women writers including poets Tusiata Avia and Selina Tusitala Marsh, and novelist Lani Wendt Young. Dan Taulapapa McMullin is a fa'afafine or LGBT writer and artist from American Samoa based in New York, whose collection of poems "Coconut Milk" was on the American Library Association's 2013 Ten Best LGBT Books of the Year. Other Samoan LGBT writers include Victor Rodger in Aotearoa-New Zealand, Brian
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In his authored works, Weiss typically writes in French or English depending of his audience. His recent Némirovsky biography was written in French and published in France before being translated into English by his wife for publication in the United States. Irène Némirovsky was a prolific Russian-born French writer of fiction who published her novels and short stories in Paris until she was deported to Auschwitz. Jonathan M. Weiss Jonathan Mark Weiss (born May 3, 1942) is an American scholar of French literature and social science whose extensive publications include literary and theatre criticism, essays on Franco-American relations, a short
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been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Among popular novelists Daphne Du Maurier wrote "Rebecca", a mystery novel, in 1938 and W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) "Of Human Bondage" (1915), a strongly autobiographical novel, is generally agreed to be his masterpiece. In genre fiction Agatha Christie was an important writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Christie's novels include "Murder on the Orient Express" (1934), "Death on the Nile" (1937), and "And Then There Were None" (1939). Another popular writer during the Golden Age of detective fiction
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after the pickup of the series by NBC. Wolfe has written several unproduced features. These include "Splicers" for 20th Century Fox and "Zero Gee" for John Woo and Terrance Chang's Lion Rock Productions. , he lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife Celeste and dog Tonka. Robert Hewitt Wolfe Robert Hewitt Wolfe (born 1964) is an American television producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as a writer on "" and for developing and producing the series "Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda". Wolfe was a writer from an early age. He attempted but did not complete several novels
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Ordeal by Innocence Ordeal by Innocence is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 3 November 1958 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6) and the US edition at $2.95. It is regarded by critics as one of the best of her later works, and was also one of Christie's two favourites of her own novels, the other being "Crooked House". Jacko Argyle dies in prison while serving a sentence for
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Ella Leffland Ella Leffland (born November 25, 1931) is an American novelist and short story writer. Highly regarded by other writers, her novels demonstrate stunning mastery of the techniques of realistic fiction; but Leffland uses her facility to illuminate characters whose imaginative lives are rich and often strange. The settings of most of her works are in northern California, where she grew up; she is perhaps best known for her semi-autobiographical novel "Rumors of Peace" (1979; reprinted as a "rediscovered classic" in 2011) about a girl coming of age during World War II. The fascination with personal and social evil
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gain national attention until the publication of his essay, "Perchance to Dream," in Harper's Magazine, discussing the cultural role of the writer in the new millennium through the prism of his own frustrations. "The Corrections", a tragicomedy about the disintegrating Lambert family, has been called "the literary phenomenon of [its] decade" and was ranked as one of the greatest novels of the past century. In 2010, he published "Freedom" to great critical acclaim. Other notable writers at the turn of the century include Michael Chabon, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" (2000) tells the story of
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episodes. He was also a writer and executive producer for the American version of "Thunderbirds 2086" (in association with Barry Gray) and an executive producer for "The King and I" and the "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective" animated TV series, among other credits. As of 2011, Mandell has been the Chief Creative Officer and CEO of the company Red Sky Entertainment (a subsidiary of Blue Wave Entertainment), whose properties include "Galaxy Rangers", "Heavy Metal Pulp" (a series of illustrated novels published by Tor in cooperation with "Heavy Metal" magazine) and the "" novel series, loosely based on his cartoon series "Jewel
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Alexander Key Alexander Hill Key (September 21, 1904 – July 25, 1979) was an American science fiction writer, most of whose books were aimed at a juvenile audience. He attended the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois between 1921-1923. He became a nationally known illustrator before he became an author. After he began writing novels for young people, he moved his family to the North Carolina mountains, and most of his books include that wild and rugged landscape. His novel "Escape to Witch Mountain" was made into a popular live-action film by Disney in 1975, 1995, and again
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Alexander Key Alexander Hill Key (September 21, 1904 – July 25, 1979) was an American science fiction writer, most of whose books were aimed at a juvenile audience. He attended the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois between 1921-1923. He became a nationally known illustrator before he became an author. After he began writing novels for young people, he moved his family to the North Carolina mountains, and most of his books include that wild and rugged landscape. His novel "Escape to Witch Mountain" was made into a popular live-action film by Disney in 1975, 1995, and again
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Les Daniels Leslie Noel Daniels III, known as Les Daniels (October 27, 1943 – November 5, 2011), was an American writer. Daniels attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he wrote his master's thesis on "Frankenstein", and he worked as a musician and as a journalist. He was the author of five novels featuring the vampire Don Sebastian de Villanueva, a cynical, amoral and misanthropic Spanish nobleman whose predatory appetites pale into insignificance compared with the historical catastrophes which he witnesses in his periodic reincarnations. These include: the Spanish Inquisition in "The Black Castle" (1978); the Spanish conquest of
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blogosphere not simply because it is a production by an eminent literary figure, but because of the immediacy and access the blog offers in relationship to a genre in the making. Escudos's notable literary enterprises include: Her work, in addition, has been featured in the following collections: Jacinta Escudos Jacinta Escudos, born in San Salvador, is a writer whose body of work includes novels, short stories, poetry, creative nonfiction, and journalistic chronicles that have been published in such Central American daily outlets as "La Nación" (Costa Rica), "La Prensa Gráfica" (El Salvador), and "El Nuevo Diario" (Nicaragua). While she primarily
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2018. Les Daniels Leslie Noel Daniels III, known as Les Daniels (October 27, 1943 – November 5, 2011), was an American writer. Daniels attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he wrote his master's thesis on "Frankenstein", and he worked as a musician and as a journalist. He was the author of five novels featuring the vampire Don Sebastian de Villanueva, a cynical, amoral and misanthropic Spanish nobleman whose predatory appetites pale into insignificance compared with the historical catastrophes which he witnesses in his periodic reincarnations. These include: the Spanish Inquisition in "The Black Castle" (1978); the Spanish conquest
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William Colt MacDonald Allan William Colt MacDonald (December 2, 1891 – March 27, 1968), who used the name William Colt MacDonald for his writing, was an American writer of westerns born in Detroit, Michigan whose work appeared both in books and on film. His many film writing credits, all for character writing, include "Santa Fe Stampede" (1938), "Cowboys from Texas" (1939)," The Kansas Terrors" (1939), "New Frontier" (1939), "Wyoming Outlaw" (1939), "Three Texas Steers" (1939), "The Night Riders" (1939), and "Red River Range" (1938). His many novels included "Gun Country" (1929), "Rustler's Paradise" (1932), "The Crimson Quirt" (1949), "Action at
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Los Angeles, CA. Ron Burch Ron Burch is an American writer whose work spans television, film, plays, short fiction and novels. His movies include "Head over Heels" , "Yours, Mine and Ours" and "Ferdinand". He is the executive producer/showrunner (along with David Kidd) of the DreamWorks Animation TV show "Dinotrux". Ron Burch was born in Columbus, Ohio. His family later moved to Sunbury, Ohio. He attended The Ohio State University and Harvard University Institute for Advanced Theater Training. While living in New York City, Ron and his writing partner, David Kidd, began writing together. They relocated to Los Angeles, where
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Ron Burch Ron Burch is an American writer whose work spans television, film, plays, short fiction and novels. His movies include "Head over Heels" , "Yours, Mine and Ours" and "Ferdinand". He is the executive producer/showrunner (along with David Kidd) of the DreamWorks Animation TV show "Dinotrux". Ron Burch was born in Columbus, Ohio. His family later moved to Sunbury, Ohio. He attended The Ohio State University and Harvard University Institute for Advanced Theater Training. While living in New York City, Ron and his writing partner, David Kidd, began writing together. They relocated to Los Angeles, where they worked as
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Jeanpaul Ferro Jéanpaul Ferro (born January 26, 1967 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American writer of poetry, novels, and short stories, whose works incorporate philosophical, social-political, and topical conventions. An 8-time Pushcart Prize nominee, his published works include: "All The Good Promises" (Plowman Press, 1994), "Becoming X" (BlazeVOX Books, 2008), "You Know Too Much About Flying Saucers" (Thumbscrew Press, 2009), "Essendo Morti – Being Dead" (Goldfish Press, 2009), and "Hemispheres" (Maverick Duck Press, 2009). Ferro’s work has been published and translated in Japan, China, India, Italy, and Serbia. His work has been featured on National Public Radio [1], Columbia
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fiction writer must comply with certain restraints such as: Publishers of Christian novels include B&H Publishing Group, Baker Publishing Group (whose imprints include Baker Academic, Baker Books, Bethany House, Brazos Press, Chosen, and Revell), Bridge-Logos Foundation, David C. Cook, HarperCollins Christian (Thomas Nelson) and Zondervan, Harvest House, Howard Publishing (a division of Simon & Schuster), Kregel Publications, Tyndale House, and Waterbrook Press (a division of Random House). Such novels are today marketed world-wide through Christian bookstores and online distributors, such as ChristianBook.com and Amazon.com, respectively. Urban Christian fiction is a genre in which conflicting stories of emotion and vividness mixes
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went on to become an influence to a generation of American writers such as Shelley Jackson and Ben Marcus. His subsequent novels "The Age of Sinatra" (2004), "The Pisstown Chaos" (2008) and "The Old Reactor" (2013) take place in the same dystopian setting as "Motorman". Ohle's fiction is often described as weird, surreal and experimental. His own influences include Leonora Carrington, Philip K. Dick, Flann O'Brien, and Raymond Roussel. David Ohle David Ohle is an American writer, novelist, and a lecturer at the University of Kansas, Lawrence. After receiving his M.A. from KU, he taught at the University of Texas
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Devin K. Grayson Devin Kalile Grayson is an American writer of comic books and novels. Titles that she has written include "", "The Titans", the Vertigo series "USER", and "Nightwing". Devin Grayson was born in a hippie communal farmstead in New Haven, Connecticut. When her parents divorced two years later, she and her mother relocated to Berkeley, California. Deciding at a young age that she wanted to be an actress, Grayson studied the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, the Drama Studio London at Berkeley, the Julia Morgan Bay Area Youth Theater Co., Cazadero Performing Arts Camp, the Berkeley Shakespeare
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age of 12. Likewise, Harington reflects the dubious delights of getting his initial novels into print, with their sales on no occasion matching the favorable notices, blending these stories with the humorous perceptions on the writer's life (particularly the writerly penchant for liquor, religion, and sex). What came of this is a bittersweet portrait of an inspired but haunted artist, a writer genuinely rooted in American folk traditions whose triumphs seemed always to be matched by deep disappointments, a novelist who not only blends comic relief into his tragedies but poignant 'tragic relief' into his comedies. Stay More: The World
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The City and the Pillar The City and the Pillar is the third published novel by American writer Gore Vidal, written in 1946 and published on January 10, 1948. The story is about a young man who is coming of age and discovers his own homosexuality. "The City and the Pillar" is significant because it is recognized as the first post-World War II novel whose gay protagonist is portrayed in a sympathetic manner and is not killed off at the end of the story for defying social norms. It is also recognized as one of the "definitive war-influenced gay novels",
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left-wing political journal "The Partisan Review". Writer Nicholas Lemann has described the New York Intellectuals as "the American Bloomsbury". Writers often considered among the New York Intellectuals include Robert Warshow, Philip Rahv, William Phillips, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Lionel Trilling, Clement Greenberg, Irving Kristol, Sidney Hook, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, and Daniel Bell. The 1940s and 1950s also saw the rise in prominence of Ayn Rand, who was based in New York for many years and whose novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged were both set in the city. Parallel and counter to these mainstream groups have been such New
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people from Al-Wehdat include writer Ibrahim Nasrallah whose parents came to Al Wehdat in 1948, when they were forced from their home in Al-Bruij in Palestine. His series of novels, "Gaza Weddings", were translated into English in 2017. Nasrallah's parents took refuge in Al-Wehdat camp after they were uprooted from their home in Al-Bruij near Jerusalem in 1948. Nasrallah, who was born and grew up in the camp, studied at UNWRA schools there and the UNRWA Teacher Training College in Amman. Nihad Awad, who is the director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has been interviewed frequently by the
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complete with the Dale Earnhardt Pilgrimage of fans. These are satirical novels set in the world of science fiction conventions and fandom. "Winners are in bold" Sharyn McCrumb Sharyn McCrumb (born February 26, 1948) is an American writer whose books celebrate the history and folklore of Appalachia. McCrumb is the winner of numerous literary awards, and the author of the Elizabeth McPherson series, the Ballad series, and the St. Dale series. Sharyn McCrumb was born Sharyn Elaine Arwood on February 26, 1948, in Wilmington, North Carolina. McCrumb is an award-winning Southern writer, perhaps best known for her Appalachian "Ballad" novels,
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1926 and his 19th and final, "The Reivers", in 1962, the year he died. Numerous works have been published posthumously. To date, Library of America has published all of Faulkner's novels in five volumes, containing restored authoritative texts. "See also": Collected Stories of William Faulkner William Faulkner bibliography The bibliography of William Faulkner, an American writer, includes 19 novels, 125 short stories (not including stories that appear exclusively in novels), 20 screenplays (including uncredited rewrites), one play, six collections of poetry as well as assorted letters and essays. Faulkner made his debut as a published writer at the age of
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most recently written "The Obsidian Trilogy" with historian James Mallory; a historical fantasy series about an "alternative" Elizabeth I with romance writer Roberta Gellis; and the "Heirs of Alexandria series" with Dave Freer and Eric Flint. Mercedes Lackey Mercedes Ritchie Lackey (born June 24, 1950) is an American writer of fantasy novels. Many of her novels and trilogies are interlinked and set in the world of Velgarth, mostly in and around the country of Valdemar. Her Valdemar novels include interaction between human and non-human protagonists with many different cultures and social mores. Her other main world is one much like
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the Las Vegas Strip. Pony Boy has not always been the best boyfriend and lover to his stripper girlfriend Cheri. Comic book writer Bing Beiderbixxe is just in Vegas for the weekend. These characters' lives intersect in this unflinching tale about lost innocence. Bock's second novel, Alice & Oliver, is based on his late wife Diana Joy Colbert and her illness. The novel follows a character battling cancer. Charles Bock Charles Bock (born 1969) is an American writer whose debut 2008 novel "Beautiful Children" (published by Random House) was selected by "The New York Times" as a Notable Book of
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Vani (writer) Vani (; 1912 – 1988) was a Kannada writer. She was born in Srirangapatna, near Mysore). Her father B. Narasinga Rao was an advocate in Srirangapatna. He was bestowed with "Rajaseva Saktha" title by Nalvadi Krishna Raja Wodeyer of Mysore Palace. Three of her novels — "Shubhamangala", "Eradu_Kanasu" and "Hosa_Belaku" — became Kannada movies. Vani studied until SSLC, which was then unusual for a girl. Her passion for writing started at a very young age. She was married at the age of ten to M.N Nanjundaiah, an advocate by profession. Other literary contributors from her family include Triveni
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"Moscow Club" (1991) by Joseph Finder, "Coyote Bird" (1993) by Jim DeFelice, "Masquerade" (1996) by Gayle Lynds, and "The Unlikely Spy" (1996) by Daniel Silva maintained the spy novel in the post–Cold War world. Other important American authors who first became active in spy fiction during this period include David Ignatius, "Agents of Innocence" (1997); David Baldacci, "Saving Faith" (1999); and Vince Flynn, with "Term Limits" (1999) and a series of novels featuring counter-terrorism expert Mitch Rapp. In the UK, Robert Harris entered the spy genre with "Enigma" (1995). Other important British authors who became active during this period include
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its winter 2012-13 season. Hoban is often described as a fantasy writer, and only two of his novels, "Turtle Diary" and "The Bat Tattoo", are entirely devoid of supernatural elements. However, the fantasy elements are usually presented as only moderately surprising developments in an otherwise realistic contemporary story, which is magic realism. Exceptions include "Kleinzeit", a comic fantasy whose characters include Death, Hospital, and Underground; "Riddley Walker", a science-fiction novel whose futuristic setting is primitive and post-apocalyptic; "Pilgermann", a historical novel about the Crusades; and "Fremder", a more conventional science-fiction novel. There is frequent repetition of images and themes in
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Bell in the Cambridge companion to Wharton, ""The Age of Innocence" was composed and first read in the aftermath of Roosevelt's death and in the immediate wake of World War I. We frame the ending remembering the multiple losses… not only the loss of Roosevelt but the destruction of the prewar world and all that Wharton valued in it." "The Age of Innocence" centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage, and the introduction of the bride's cousin, plagued by scandal, whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s New York society, it never
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Kathleen Lindsay, as the most prolific writer with 904 novels. Mr. Little believed he was second, averaging a novel every week and a half since 1963." Little died in 1987 at the age of 72. Paul Little (author) Paul Hugo Little (1915–1987) was an American pulp fiction writer and author of the historical novels forming the Windhaven series and The Hawk and the Dove series under the pen names Marie de Jourlet and Leigh Franklin James respectively. He was the author of 700 historical fiction, erotica and romance novels mostly published under pseudonyms. He also published a few books under
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Frank Bergon Frank Bergon (born 1943) is an American writer whose novels, essays, anthologies, and literary criticism focus primarily on the American West. Frank Bergon was born in Ely, Nevada, and grew up on a ranch in Madera County in California’s San Joaquin Valley. After attending elementary school at St. Joachim in Madera, California and high school at Bellarmine in San Jose, he received a B.A. in English at Boston College, attended Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow, and completed a Ph.D. in English and American Literature at Harvard University. Bergon has published ten books—four novels, a critical study
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co-writer Marti Noxon and "Innocence" by writer and director Joss Whedon. Whedon also discusses the episodes "Surprise", "Innocence", "Passion", "I Only Have Eyes For You" and "Becoming" in interviews. Scripts for "Reptile Boy", "What's My Line" (Parts 1 & 2) and "Innocence" are included. Featurettes include "Designing "Buffy"", a 15-minute featurette which details the set designs; "A "Buffy" Bestiary", a 30-minute featurette detailing the monsters featured in the season; and "Beauty and Beasts", a 20-minute featurette showcasing the make-up process. Also included are cast biographies, photo galleries, and series trailers. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 2) The second season of
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and bronze sculptures of Frank Waters. His wife Barbara Waters was executive director of the foundation. Novels written by Waters include: Other published works, essays, non-fiction, and esoteric writings by Waters include: Frank Waters Frank Waters (July 25, 1902 - June 3, 1995) was an American writer. He is known for his novels and historical works about the American Southwest. The Frank Waters Foundation, founded in his name, strives to foster literary and artistic achievement in the Southwest United States. Frank Waters was born on July 25, 1902, in Colorado Springs, Colorado to May Ione Dozier Waters and Frank Jonathon
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that "living in other countries has given me a different perspective as a writer. It has heightened my sense of dislocation and rootlessness. ... I think this feeling is reflected in my characters, most of them women whose lives are changed by either a physical displacement or a loss of some kind". Novels Short Stories Biography Lily Tuck Lily Tuck (born October 10, 1938) is a French-born American novelist and short story writer whose novel "The News from Paraguay" won the 2004 National Book Award for Fiction. Her novel "Siam" was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She
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2009. The earlier books include two series, "The Age of Misrule" and "The Dark Age". Mark has been described as 'a contemporary bard - a post-industrial Taliesin whose visionary novels are crammed with remixed mythologies, oneiric set pieces, potent symbols, unsettling imagery and an engaging fusion of genre elements. The author's ambition is sustained by his invention: his work is distinguished by breakneck but brilliantly controlled plots, meticulous research, deft characterisation and a crisp, accessible prose style.' He also writes historical novels under the pseudonym "James Wilde". He announced on Twitter that his novel Pendragon was shortlisted for Best Published
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that treat themes of youth and promise along with age and despair. Cambridge University Press is publishing the complete works of F. Scott Fitzgerald in annotated editions. Film Television F. Scott Fitzgerald bibliography Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: "This Side of Paradise", "The Beautiful
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Laura Caldwell Laura Caldwell is a former civil trial lawyer who is now a law professor at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, founding director of Life After Innocence, published author of 14 novels and one non-fiction book (to date). The latest book she co-edited is "Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted" (Liveright, 2017), which tells the incredible true stories of over a dozen innocent men and women who were convicted of serious crimes and cast into the maw of a vast and deeply flawed American criminal justice system before eventually, miraculously being exonerated. With novels published in
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H. C. McNeile with "Bulldog Drummond" (1920), and Leslie Charteris, whose many books chronicled the adventures of Simon Templar, alias "The Saint". The medievalist scholar M. R. James wrote highly regarded ghost stories (1904–1928) in contemporary settings. This was called the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Agatha Christie, a writer of crime novels, short stories and plays, is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. Christie's works, particularly those featuring the detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple, made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.
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continued to write and held various official posts, including the editorship of the literary journal "Renmin Wenxue" ("People's Literature"). His novels include "Big Lin and Little Lin", "The Kingdom of Golden Ducks", and "The Secret of the Magic Gourd". The hostility of the Chinese Kuomintang regime meant that much of Zhang's writing had to be serialized in underground journals. These are the first full editions of Zhang Tianyi's works: Zhang Tianyi Zhang Tianyi, real name: Zhang Yuanding; 26 September 1906 – 28 April 1985) was a 20th-century Chinese left-wing writer and children's author, whose novels and short stories achieved acclaim
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Alma Alexander Alma Alexander is the pen name of Alma A. Hromic, a fantasy writer whose novels include the "Worldweavers" young adult series, "The Secrets of Jin-Shei" and its sequel "The Embers of Heaven", "The Hidden Queen," and "Changer of Days." She is a native of Yugoslavia and grew up in various African countries, including Zambia, Swaziland, and South Africa, also spending time in England and New Zealand before moving to the United States. She currently lives in Bellingham, Washington with her husband. In addition to her fantasy novels, Alexander has published a memoir about growing up in Africa and
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at Ithaca College. Nick Sagan Nick Sagan (born September 16, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the science fiction novels "Idlewild", "Edenborn", and "Everfree", and his screen credits include episodes of "" and "". He is the son of astronomer Carl Sagan and artist and writer Linda Salzman. At age six, Nick Sagan's greeting, "Hello from the children of planet Earth," was recorded and placed aboard NASA's Voyager Golden Record. (Launched with a selection of terrestrial greetings, sights, sounds and music, the "Voyager 1" and "Voyager 2" spacecraft are now the
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Nick Sagan Nick Sagan (born September 16, 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the science fiction novels "Idlewild", "Edenborn", and "Everfree", and his screen credits include episodes of "" and "". He is the son of astronomer Carl Sagan and artist and writer Linda Salzman. At age six, Nick Sagan's greeting, "Hello from the children of planet Earth," was recorded and placed aboard NASA's Voyager Golden Record. (Launched with a selection of terrestrial greetings, sights, sounds and music, the "Voyager 1" and "Voyager 2" spacecraft are now the most distant human-made
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Margaret Maron Margaret Maron is an American writer, the author of award-winning mystery novels. Maron was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and grew up in central Johnston County; she has also lived in Italy. She and her husband, artist Joe Maron, lived in Brooklyn before returning to her home state where they now live. Maron is the author of numerous short stories and more than 20 mystery novels to date. One series of novels features Sigrid Harald, a loner lieutenant in the NYPD whose policeman father was killed in the line of duty when she was a toddler ("The Right
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Neville Frankel Neville Frankel (born 7 December 1948) is a South Africa-born, American writer of literary and historical fiction. His novels include "The Third Power" (1980), "Bloodlines" (2012) and "On the Sickle's Edge" (2017). He received an Emmy for his work on a BBC documentary in 1984. Frankel is also a financial planner. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Frankel immigrated to the United States with his family in 1962 at the age of 14. He majored in English at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, where he graduated in 1972. He earned an MA in English literature from the University
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C. K. Stead Christian Karlson "Karl" Stead (born 17 October 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism. One of Karl Stead's novels, "Smith's Dream", provided the basis for the film "Sleeping Dogs", starring Sam Neill; this became the first New Zealand film released in the United States. "Mansfield: A Novel" was a finalist for the 2005 Tasmania Pacific Fiction Prize and received commendation in the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region. He won the 2010 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award for
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are "Somudrochar O Bidrohira", "Muktijoddhara", "Shromon Goutam" etc. Humayun Azad commenced his novelist carrier with "Chhappanno Hajar Borgomile" in 1994, which was a courageous slap on martial law and dictatorship. In no time the novel brought its writer much name and popularity. His later novels include "Sob Kichhu Bhenge Pore", "Subhabrata", "Tar Samparkita Susamachar", "Rajnitibidgon" etc. Mohammad Nurul Huda, a renowned poet, had also two attempts in novel. Excepting "Janmajati" and "Moinpahar" he did not make any third attempt. Akimun Rahman is the first novelist ever in Bengali language in whose writing the untold and unknown secrets of womanhood are
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His work may be seen at his website. Price has five published novels, as well as one book-length work of historical non-fiction, numerous magazine articles about the history of the American frontier, four e-books and an essay in an anthology about the Revolutionary War. Charles F. Price Charles F. Price (born 1938 in Clyde, North Carolina, USA) is an American novelist and historical non-fiction writer whose work covers topics ranging from the Crusades to the American Revolution, to North Carolina in the American Civil War, and to the Texas and Colorado Wild West. Featured writer for the 2009 University of
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more famous after their deaths than during their lifetime (and often were completely or relatively unknown) include Greek philosopher Socrates; scientist Galileo Galilei; 1800s-era poet John Keats; painter Vincent van Gogh; poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe; singer Eva Cassidy; comedian Bill Hicks; writer Emily Dickinson; artist Edith Holden, whose 1906 diary was a best-seller when published posthumously in 1977; writer Franz Kafka; singer Jeff Buckley; diarist Anne Frank; philosopher Søren Kierkegaard; writer John Kennedy Toole (who posthumously won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 12 years after his death); author Stieg Larsson (who died with his "Millennium" novels unpublished); musician,
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school English teacher from 1938 to 1973. On 5 April 1956, she married Jacob "Jack" Lazarus. She published Children's fiction as Marguerite J. Gascoigne, and later gothic romance novels as Anna Gilbert. Marguerite died at 88, on 24 September 2004 in North Yorkshire, England. Marguerite J. Gascoigne Marguerite Lazarus, née Jackson (born 1 May 1916 in Durham, England – d. 24 September 2004 in North Yorkshire, England) was a British writer. She started writing children's fiction as Marguerite J. Gascoigne, and later romance novels under the pseudonym of Anna Gilbert. Her novel "The Look of Innocence " won in 1976
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The little volume of poems was hand-pressed by Brendan O'Brien and illustrated with line sketches by New Zealand expatriate artist Douglas MacDiarmid. The book was launched on 8 August 2017 in Wellington, with the assistance of Gregory O'Brien. On 25 August 2017, Pasifika poet-scholar Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh was named the New Zealand Poet Laureate for 2017-2019. C. K. Stead Christian Karlson "Karl" Stead (born 17 October 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism. One of Karl Stead's novels, "Smith's Dream", provided the basis for the film "Sleeping Dogs", starring Sam
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Stuart Moore Stuart Moore is an American writer and editor of comic books and novels. Stuart Moore's writing includes "Civil War", the first in a line of prose novels from Marvel Comics, and two stories for Amazon's Kindle Worlds program: "X-O Manowar: Noughts and Crosses" and "Shadowman: Sunshine and Shadow". Other prose novels include "American Meat", "Reality Bites", and "John Carter: The Movie Novelization". His comics and graphic novel work includes the original science-fiction series "Earthlight", "Shadrach Stone", and "PARA"; "Web of Spider-Man", "Namor: The First Mutant", and "Wolverine Noir" (Marvel); "Firestorm" and "Detective Comics" (DC Comics); the multicultural superhero
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"gorgeous and just fucking terrifying", and said it "electrified" him like Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead", whose distribution he helped secure with a rave review in 1982. King's son, writer Joe Hill, called "Crimson Peak" "del Toro's blood-soaked "Age of Innocence", a gloriously sick waltz through Daphne du Maurier territory". IGN reviewer Scott Collura gave the film an 8.5 out of 10 score, saying, "Featuring memorable performances, amazing production design, and a hard edge that is too often lacking in horror films these days, it nonetheless also manages to subvert some long-standing tropes about the gothic romance genre which inspired
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where he won the Will Eisner award for Best Editor 1996 and the Don Thompson Award for Favorite Editor 1999. Stuart Moore Stuart Moore is an American writer and editor of comic books and novels. Stuart Moore's writing includes "Civil War", the first in a line of prose novels from Marvel Comics, and two stories for Amazon's Kindle Worlds program: "X-O Manowar: Noughts and Crosses" and "Shadowman: Sunshine and Shadow". Other prose novels include "American Meat", "Reality Bites", and "John Carter: The Movie Novelization". His comics and graphic novel work includes the original science-fiction series "Earthlight", "Shadrach Stone", and "PARA";
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Charles F. Price Charles F. Price (born 1938 in Clyde, North Carolina, USA) is an American novelist and historical non-fiction writer whose work covers topics ranging from the Crusades to the American Revolution, to North Carolina in the American Civil War, and to the Texas and Colorado Wild West. Featured writer for the 2009 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Authors on the Road Program and winner of the 1999 Sir Walter Raleigh Literary Award, a list which includes fellow North Carolinians Reynolds Price (no relation), John Ehle, Ron Rash and Charles Frazier, Price has published five novels,
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In 2010, he became regular artist on Marvel Comic' mature-audience MAX-imprint series, "Deadpool Max". Titles published by various American publishers include: Titles published by Marvel include: Titles published by DC Comics include: Titles published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint include: Titles published by Baker's own publishing company include: Titles published by various American and British publishers include: Kyle Baker Kyle John Baker (born 1965) is an American cartoonist, comic book writer-artist, and animator known for his graphic novels and for a 2000s revival of the series "Plastic Man". Baker has won numerous Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards for his work
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Pamela Morsi Pamela Morsi (born March 12, 1951) is an American writer of over 28 romance novels since 1991. Morsi is a USA Today Bestselling Author and has written more than 28 novels. Her accolades include being a two-time recipient of the coveted RITA Award for her novels Courting Miss Hattie (1992) and Something Shady (1996). She is a former librarian, with a master's degree from University of Missouri and a BA from Oklahoma State University. Morsi is known for writing primarily fiction and romance novels that feature stories of humor and insight as she portrays the lives of ordinary
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Pamela Morsi Pamela Morsi (born March 12, 1951) is an American writer of over 28 romance novels since 1991. Morsi is a USA Today Bestselling Author and has written more than 28 novels. Her accolades include being a two-time recipient of the coveted RITA Award for her novels Courting Miss Hattie (1992) and Something Shady (1996). She is a former librarian, with a master's degree from University of Missouri and a BA from Oklahoma State University. Morsi is known for writing primarily fiction and romance novels that feature stories of humor and insight as she portrays the lives of ordinary
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Anna Robeson Brown Anna Robeson Brown Burr (May 26, 1873 – September 10, 1941) was an American writer of novels, poetry, stories, essays, and biographies. Her "The Autobiography: A Critical and Comparative Study" (1909), was the first book on the subject. Anna Robeson Brown was born in 1873, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Henry Armitt Brown and Josephine Lea Baker Brown Leaming. Her father was a lawyer, writer, and orator, who died when Anna was a small child. Charles Brockden Brown was her great-granduncle. Her novels include: "Alain of Halfdene" (1895); "The Black Lamb" (1896); "A Cosmopolitan Comedy" (1899);
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Caroline Stevermer Caroline Stevermer (born 1955) is an American writer of young adult fantasy novels and shorter works. She is best known for historical fantasy novels. Caroline Stevermer was born in 1955, and grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota along with one sister and two brothers. She wanted to be a writer at age 8 years old. She obtained her B.A. degree in the history of art from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. Her first two books were published under the name C. J. Stevermer. Her first novel written as Caroline Stevermer was "The Serpent's Egg". She currently
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heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northeast Georgia with her dogs, they have won numerous awards for agility, obedience, and canine musical freestyle. Her hobbies include oil painting, hiking and dog obedience training. Donna Ball Donna Ball (born 1951 in North Georgia, US) is an American writer of over 90 novels, mainly romance novels since 1982, she also signed her novels as Rebecca Flanders, Donna Carlisle and Donna Boyd. She also signed novels with Shannon Harper as Leigh Bristol and Taylor Brady. Donna Ball born in 1951 in the United States. Her ancestors were one of the first
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psychotic and possibly delusional repeatedly in his books, most notably "The Killer Inside Me", "Savage Night", "A Hell of a Woman", and "Pop. 1280". Many novels are narrated by children, whose inexperience can impair their judgment and make them unreliable. In "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), Huck's innocence leads him to make overly charitable judgments about the characters in the novel. Ken Kesey's two most famous novels feature unreliable narrators. "Chief" Bromden in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" has schizophrenia, and his telling of the events often includes things such as people growing or shrinking, walls oozing with slime,
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Early Reader 童话 Poetry 诗歌 Novels 小说 Essays 散文 Early Readers 童话 Poetry 诗歌 Picture Books 幼儿文学 Fables 寓言 Novel 小说 Essay 散文 Early Reader 童话 Novels 小说 Essays 散文 Early Reader 童话 Picture Books 幼儿文学 Poetry 诗歌 Early Reader 童话 Novels 小说 Essays 散文 Early Readers 童话 Poetry 诗歌 Picture Books 幼儿文学 The lists (in Chinese) for subsequent years include 2013, 2014, 2015. Bing Xin Children's Literature Award The Bing Xin Children's Literary Award ("Bing Xin ertong wenxue xinzuo jiang" 冰心儿童文学新作奖) is named after the Chinese writer Bing Xin, whose work has made her a key figure in 20th-century
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Lesley Kagen Lesley Kagen is an American, Milwaukee native, and national bestselling novelist. Her first book, "Whistling in the Dark", 2007, which takes place in a Milwaukee neighborhood, made the New York Times Best Seller list. Her novels are written from the viewpoints of children or young narrators, capturing the "kids' honesty, their unique way of viewing the world, their direct way of talking, [and] their enthusiasm." Common themes in her stories, which are set in the 1950s and 1960s, include: dealing with loss, family, mystery, discovering the truth, inner-workings of a community, sibling bonds, childlike perception, innocence and corruption.
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Netta Syrett Netta Syrett (17 March 1865 – 15 December 1943) was an English writer of the late Victorian period whose novels featured New Woman protagonists. Her novel "Portrait of a Rebel" was adapted into the 1936 film "A Woman Rebels". Netta Syrett was born Janet Syrett on 17 March 1865 in Ramsgate, Kent. She was one of five daughters born to silk merchant Ernest Syrett and the niece of writer Grant Allen. First educated at home by their mother and a German governess, Syrett left home at age 11 to attend North London Collegiate School. She continued her education
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Antonio Acevedo Hernández Antonio Acevedo Hernández (8 March 1886 – 1 December 1962) was a Chilean writer. Hernández was a self-taught novelist, playwright and writer whose works include theater, novels, short stories, literary and journalistic chronicles, essays, poetry and popular Chilean folklore. He created over 840 works, including the plays "Almas perdidas," "El Vino triste," "La Sangre", and "El Rancho". He was awarded the Premio Nacional de Teatro in 1936. His work, along with that of authors like Germán Luco Cruchaga and Armando Moock, marked the beginnings of Chilean dramaturgy. Hernández was the son of Juan Acevedo Astorga (one of
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a cop. Antonio Acevedo Hernández Antonio Acevedo Hernández (8 March 1886 – 1 December 1962) was a Chilean writer. Hernández was a self-taught novelist, playwright and writer whose works include theater, novels, short stories, literary and journalistic chronicles, essays, poetry and popular Chilean folklore. He created over 840 works, including the plays "Almas perdidas," "El Vino triste," "La Sangre", and "El Rancho". He was awarded the Premio Nacional de Teatro in 1936. His work, along with that of authors like Germán Luco Cruchaga and Armando Moock, marked the beginnings of Chilean dramaturgy. Hernández was the son of Juan Acevedo Astorga
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