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  2. Lois Lowry - Wikipedia

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    She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. She is known for writing about difficult subject matters, dystopias, and complex themes in works for young audiences. Lowry has won two Newbery Medals: for Number the Stars in 1990 and The Giver in 1994.

  3. Rudyard Kipling - Wikipedia

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    Bateman's, Kipling's beloved home – which he referred to as "A good and peaceable place" – in Burwash, East Sussex, is now a public museum dedicated to the author. [155] After the death of Kipling's wife in 1939, his house, Bateman's in Burwash, East Sussex, where he had lived from 1902 until 1936, was bequeathed to the National Trust. It ...

  4. Donald Grant Mitchell - Wikipedia

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    He was best known as the author, under the pseudonym "Ik Marvel", of the sentimental essays contained in the volumes Reveries of a Bachelor, or a Book of the Heart (first published in book form in 1850) and Dream Life, a Fable of the Seasons (1851). [1] Reveries of a Bachelor examines the dream-like lives Americans were living at the time. It ...

  5. The Giver - Wikipedia

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    [12] Like Lowry's other books, The Giver shows changes in the characters' lives, reflecting this fascination in the multifaceted dimensions of growing up. [ 13 ] The Giver was initially inspired by Lowry's interaction with her father, who, in his senility, kept forgetting about the long-ago death of her sister; [ 14 ] she imagined "a novel in ...

  6. Oneiros - Wikipedia

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    In Greek mythology, dreams were sometimes personified as Oneiros (Ancient Greek: Ὄνειρος, lit. 'dream') or Oneiroi (Ὄνειροι, 'dreams'). [1] In the Iliad of Homer, Zeus sends an Oneiros to appear to Agamemnon in a dream, while in Hesiod's Theogony, the Oneiroi are the sons of Nyx (Night), and brothers of Hypnos (Sleep).

  7. John Cournos - Wikipedia

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    Later in life he married Helen Kestner Satterthwaite (1893–1960), who was also an author and published under the pseudonyms Sybil Norton and John Hawk. However, Cournos is better-known for his unhappy affair with Dorothy L. Sayers , fictionalised by Sayers in the detective book Strong Poison (1930) and by Cournos himself in The Devil Is an ...

  8. Kahlil Gibran - Wikipedia

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    Gibran Khalil Gibran [a] [b] (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran, [c] [d] was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist; he was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title. [5]

  9. Joy Williams (American writer) - Wikipedia

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    Best-known for her short fiction, she is also the author of novels including State of Grace, The Quick and the Dead, and Harrow. Williams has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, a Rea Award for the Short Story , a Kirkus Award for Fiction , and a Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction .