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The Pianoplayers
The Pianoplayers is a 1986 novel by Anthony Burgess, drawing heavily on his memories of his father, a pub piano-player.
 The narrator, Ellen Henshaw, is a prostitute who later becomes a madam.
 Her father, Billy, plays the piano in the cinema, accompanying silent movies.
 it was published by Arbor House in the US (ISBN  ), and Hutchinson in the UK.
Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'FRSL', '4': "} ( ; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) – who published under the pen name Anthony Burgess – was an English writer and composer.
 From relatively modest beginnings in a Catholic family in Manchester, he eventually became one of the best known English literary figures of the latter half of the twentieth century.
Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom.
 The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis and stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Sally Field.
 The story depicts several decades in the life of Forrest Gump, a slow-witted but kind-hearted, good-natured and athletically prodigious man from Alabama, who witnesses, and in some cases influences, some of the defining events of the latter half of the 20th century in the United States; more specifically, the period between Forrest's birth in 1944 and 1982.
 The film differs substantially from Winston Groom's novel, including Gump's personality and several events that were depicted. Octavia Walton Le Vert
Octavia Walton Le Vert (August 11, 1811 – March 12, 1877), née Octavia Celestia Valentine Walton was an American socialite and writer born in Augusta, Georgia.
 She moved with her parents to Mobile, Alabama in 1835, where she married Dr. Henry Strachey Le Vert in 1836.
 She became one of the first female southern writers to achieve national recognition.
 Although largely faded from history today, she was a well-known figure during her own time.
 From the 1830s through the 1850s she was noted for hosting gatherings of prominent politicians, noted literary figures, and professionals of all types.
 She was friends with a variety of prominent 19th century figures. Liana Burgess
Liana Burgess (born Liliana Macellari, September 25, 1929 – December 3, 2007) was an Italian translator and literary agent who was the second wife of English writer Anthony Burgess.
 Burgess and Macellari had embarked on an affair while Burgess was married to his first wife, and Macellari gave birth to a son nine months after their meeting.
 The couple became tax exiles in the late 1960s, living in Malta and Italy, and spent several years in the United States.
 The couple finally settled in Monaco.
 Macellari played an important role in Burgess's later literary career, negotiating film rights and acting as his European literary agent, and translating his novels. Marchette Chute
Marchette Gaylord Chute (1909-1994) was an American writer.
 As a biographer, she specialized in English literary figures; she published biographies of Geoffrey Chaucer, Ben Jonson, and William Shakespeare.
 As a children's writer, she specialized in tales written during the periods described in her biographies, and in rhyming verses for children. 1985 (Anthony Burgess novel)
1985 is a novel by English writer Anthony Burgess.
 Originally published in 1978, it was inspired by, and was intended as a tribute to, George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Abba Abba
Abba Abba was published in 1977.
 It is English writer Anthony Burgess's 22nd novel. Honora Sneyd
Honora Edgeworth ("née" Sneyd; 1751 – 1 May 1780) was an eighteenth-century English writer, mainly known for her associations with literary figures of the day particularly Anna Seward and the Lunar Society, and for her work on children's education.
 Sneyd was born in Bath in 1751, and following the death of her mother in 1756 was raised by Canon Thomas Seward and his wife Elizabeth in Lichfield, Staffordshire until she returned to her father's house in 1771.
 There, she formed a close friendship with their daughter, Anna Seward.
 Having had a romantic engagement to John André and having declined the hand of Thomas Day, she married Richard Edgeworth as his second wife in 1773, living on the family estate in Ireland till 1776.
 There she helped raise his children from his first marriage, including Maria Edgeworth, and two children of her own.
 Returning to England she fell ill with tuberculosis, which was incurable, dying at Weston in Staffordshire in 1780.
 She is the subject of a number of Anna Seward's poems, and with her husband developed concepts of childhood education, resulting in a series of books, such as "Practical Education", based on her observations of the Edgeworth children.
 She is known for her stand on women's rights through her vigorous rejection of the proposal by Day, in which she outlined her views on equality in marriage. Anthony C. Winkler
Anthony C. Winkler (25 February 1942 – 18 September 2015) was a successful Jamaican novelist and popular contributor to many post-secondary English literary texts.
 His first novel "The Painted Canoe" (1986), although taking the most time to write and publish, was his most rewarding, allowing him to move on and produce his best known book, "The Lunatic" (1987), which earned him a spot on the bestseller list.
 He also co-authored a number of English grammar textbooks, and other non-fiction works.