Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A godson of Arthur Conan Doyle, [2] Bruce Hamilton wrote six crime novels in the 1930s, then four more novels over the next 30 years. Unlike many crime fiction writers, he preferred to try something different with each novel, rather than use a successful formula. [2] He also wrote a biography of his brother Patrick in 1972.
Miriam Tlali (11 November 1933 – 24 February 2017) was a South African novelist. She was the first black woman in South Africa to publish an English-language novel, [1] Muriel at Metropolitan, in 1975 (later issued under her preferred title, Between Two Worlds).
A 1989 biography of Kroeber again praised her writing, saying that she had a talent for "making us part of a life we never took part in, of allowing our presence where we never were, of raising up a gone world." [1] In contrast, scholar Augie Fleras wrote in 2006 that she found the book "slow", and said that it often romanticized and even ...
The novel was about the tragic experiences in society of two daughters of a Sussex farmer. [2] The novel was influenced by her political views and the views of her wider family. [14] It was dedicated to her sister Jane. Under her own name she published the semi-autobiographical work "Sylvia Saxon – Episodes in a Life" in 1914.
Sandra Cisneros (born December 20, 1954) is an American writer. She is best known for her first novel, The House on Mango Street (1983), and her subsequent short story collection, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991).
"Two Worlds" was the first song that Phil Collins wrote for the film. After writing the piece, he collaborated with score composer Mark Mancina to ensure the musical motifs carried throughout the movie. Mancina emphasised the need for cohesiveness in the score, so "the songs didn't sound like they were recorded two years before and just dropped ...
[5] Most of the book is set in Baghdad, Iraq and covers the period of the Zainab Salbi's childhood. [2] When the author is eleven years old her father becomes the private pilot of Saddam Hussein, [2] who becomes a family friend. [4] In order to protect her from Hussein, at the age of 19, Salbi has an arranged marriage and is sent to the United ...
Robert Maynard Pirsig (/ ˈ p ɜːr s ɪ ɡ /; September 6, 1928 – April 24, 2017) was an American writer and philosopher.He is the author of the philosophical books Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and he co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings (2022) along with his ...