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Will Hobbs (born August 22, 1947) is the American author of twenty novels for upper elementary, middle school and young adult readers, as well as two picture book stories. Hobbs credits his sense of audience to his fourteen years of teaching reading and English in southwest Colorado.
Far North is an independently produced film by director Asif Kapadia, based on a short story by Sara Maitland. [1] It was screened at various film festivals in 2007 and 2008 before an American DVD release on 23 September 2008.
Far North, a film starring Patricia Arquette; Far North, a movie by Asif Kapadia starring Michelle Yeoh and Sean Bean; Far North, a 2009 novel by author Marcel Theroux; Ultima Thule, the term given to unknown northern lands in ancient European geography
Maitland's 2003 collection of short stories, On Becoming a Fairy Godmother, is a fictional celebration of the menopausal woman, while the title story of 2008's Far North was originally published as "True North" in her first collection Telling Tales and was made into a film of the same title in 2007.
Far North is a 1988 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Sam Shepard. The film stars Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, Tess Harper, Donald Moffat, Ann Wedgeworth and Patricia Arquette. Far North was released in the United States on September 10, 1988, by Nelson Entertainment.
The Tawny Man trilogy is a series of novels by American author Robin Hobb, and the third trilogy in the Realm of the Elderlings sequence. Narrated in first person by FitzChivalry Farseer, it follows his life in his mid-thirties, and is set after the events of the Farseer Trilogy and the Liveship Traders .
The geography of the Six Duchies resembles the US state of Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, where Hobb lived for several years. [10] [22] Hobb's initial sketches of the setting were inspired by the panhandle of Alaska, and the Six Duchies resembled Kodiak Island, [12] her residence following her marriage, [23] but the final commissioned maps bore a greater similarity to an upside-down Alaska ...
Allyson Hobbs is an American historian, author, and associate professor at Stanford University. Hobbs is known for her scholarly work on African American history, especially her research on racial passing. Hobbs is also a prominent public intellectual, regularly engaging in contemporary discussions of race, inequality, and violence in America ...