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Mary L. Day (1836–?), American memoirist Mary Gage Day (1857–1935), American physician and medical writer Mary Louise Day (1968–2017), teenage girl who mysteriously disappeared from her home
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
Authors Ferrante, Jesmyn Ward, and George Saunders each had three books on the list, the most of any author. The following authors were listed twice: Roberto Bolaño, Edward P. Jones, Denis Johnson, Alice Munro, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith and Philip Roth. [2]
Day was one of a handful of blind authors familiar to American readers in mid-nineteenth-century. [3] She wrote two memoirs, Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl (1859) and The World as I Have Found It (1878). She sold copies of Incidents to support herself, traveling the United States with a companion, [4] and making personal appearances.
Jean Kerr (born Bridget Jean Collins; July 10, 1922 [2] – January 5, 2003) [a] was an American author and playwright who authored the 1957 bestseller Please Don't Eat the Daisies [b] and the plays King of Hearts in 1954 and Mary, Mary in 1961.
Green Day’s follow-up to Dookie isn’t a classic on that level, but the appeal of Insomniac is similar, and it feels like you’re listening to the band play harder and louder than they have ...
Karl Ove Knausgård (Norwegian: [kɑːl ˈûːvə ˈknæ̂ʉsɡoːr]; born 6 December 1968) is a Norwegian author.He became known worldwide for a series of six autobiographical novels titled My Struggle (Min Kamp). [3]
Mary J. Blige was born in the Bronx in the early ’70s, much like hip-hop itself. By the time she came of age in the projects of Yonkers, she was singing backup for rappers like Father MC […]