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Hannah wrote her first novel with her mother, who was dying of cancer at the time, but the book was never published. [5] Hannah's best-selling work, The Nightingale, has sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide and has been published in 45 languages. [6] [7] Hannah lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, [8] with her husband and their son.
The book tells the story of two sisters in France during World War II and their struggle to survive and resist the German occupation there. The book was inspired by accounts of a Belgian woman, Andrée de Jongh, who helped downed Allied pilots escape Nazi territory. [1] [2] The Nightingale entered multiple bestseller lists upon release. As of ...
His father was William Shore (1752–1822). His mother was Mary née Evans (1760–1853) who died at Tapton House, Sheffield. She was the niece of one Peter Nightingale, a lead mining entrepreneur, under the terms of whose will William Shore inherited the Lea Hall estate in Derbyshire, but also assumed the name and arms of
A black box theater is named for William Inge in Murphy Hall at the University of Kansas. Inge is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame, inducted posthumously in 1979. [29] Since 1982, Independence Community College's William Inge Center for the Arts in his hometown has sponsored the annual William Inge Theatre Festival to honor ...
This nightingale's song was pretty, but always the same. The real nightingale, no longer appreciated, flew out of the palace while no one was looking. The emperor placed the artificial nightingale at his bedside and banished the real nightingale for his desertion. The artificial bird sang the emperor to sleep each night until its cogs wore down.
The Nightingale is a 2002 adaptation of the classic 1843 Hans Christian Andersen story by Jerry Pinkney. It is about a king who forsakes a nightingale for a bejeweled mechanical bird , becomes gravely ill, and is then revived by the song of the nightingale.
The Nightingale is a novel by the American writer Agnes Sligh Turnbull (1888–1982) set in a fictional rural Western Pennsylvania village (but much like the author's birthplace of New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, about thirty miles east of Pittsburgh) at the turn of the 20th century.
"Black Woman's Manifesto", Third World Women's Alliance (1970) [279] Black Women's Liberation, Maxine Williams and Pamela Newman (1970) [280] Chains or Change, by the Irish Women's Liberation Movement (1970) Chicago and New Haven Women's Liberation Rock Bands lyrics (1970s) [281] "Cutting Loose", Sally Kempton (1970)