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Homegoing is the debut historical fiction novel by Ghanaian-American author Yaa Gyasi, published in 2016.Each chapter in the novel follows a different descendant of an Asante woman named Maame, starting with her two daughters, who are half-sisters, separated by circumstance: Effia marries James Collins, the British governor in charge of Cape Coast Castle, while her half-sister Esi is held ...
Yaa Gyasi (born 1989) is a Ghanaian American novelist. Her work, most notably her 2016 debut novel Homegoing and her 2020 novel Transcendent Kingdom, features themes of lineage, generational trauma, and Black and African identities.
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Homegoing is a science fiction novel by American author Frederik Pohl, first published in 1989 by Del Rey Books. [1] The novel was one of the nominees for the Locus SF Award , one of the awards of the Hugo Awards .
James Meek (born 1962) is a British journalist and novelist, author of The People's Act of Love. He was born in London , England, and grew up in Dundee , Scotland. [ 1 ]
James Riley covers a number of different genres in the Story Thieves series. Story Thieves: The Stolen Chapters (published January 19, 2016) [ 20 ] is a mystery novel. [ 21 ] [ pages needed ] Story Thieves: Secret Origins (published January 17, 2017) [ 22 ] is a superhero novel with occasional comic book -style pages. [ 23 ]
James Robert Runcie (born 7 May 1959) [1] is a British novelist, documentary filmmaker, television producer and playwright. [2] He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a visiting professor at Bath Spa University and was Commissioning Editor for Arts on BBC Radio 4 from 2016 - 2020.
In 1996, Gardner retired from writing James Bond books due to ill health. [59] With the influence of the American publishers, Putnam's, the Gardner novels showed an increase in the number of Americanisms used in the book, such as a waiter wearing "pants", rather than trousers, in The Man from Barbarossa. [60]