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Wally Lamb (born October 17, 1950) [1] is an American author known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, both of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club. [2][3][4] He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich from 1989 to 1998 [5] and has taught Creative Writing in the ...
San Francisco Review of Books (SFRB) was a book review periodical published from the mid-1970s to 1997 in the Bay Area, California, United States.Founding editor-publisher Ronald Nowicki launched his publication April 1975, a time when the San Francisco Chronicle depended on the wire services for its reviews.
Starting in May 1977, the index was published bi-monthly. In 1994, the index became quarterly. Since 1996, it has been published three times a year, along with an annual accumulation. In 1975, Gale began publishing Children's Book Review Index, which included information from Book Review Index on children's literature. [2]
Walter Ellis Mosley (born January 12, 1952) is an American novelist, most widely recognized for his crime fiction. He has written a series of best-selling historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
The highest-ranked book on the list was the Elena Ferrante novel My Brilliant Friend published in 2012. 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 ...
This category has the following 28 subcategories, out of 28 total. Writers from Bakersfield, California (20 P) Writers from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California (27 P) Writers from Fresno, California (39 P) Writers from Glendale, California (33 P) Writers from Long Beach, California (57 P)
Mildred Pierce is a psychological drama by James M. Cain published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1941. [1]A story of “social inequity and opportunity in America" set during the Great Depression, Mildred Pierce follows the trajectory of a lower-middle class divorcee with two children in her tragic struggle to achieve financial and personal success. [2]
Swist was born April 26, 1953, in New Haven, Connecticut. It is rumoured he attended Yale University but not confirmed he was actually registered. He currently makes his home in South Amherst, Massachusetts. For over three decades, he was a bookseller and a bookstore manager, dealing in antiquarian, new, and used books.