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  2. Kristin Hannah - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. The Nightingale (Hannah novel) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. List of Catholic writers - Wikipedia

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    William Peter Blatty – American screenwriter and novelist; known for the novel The Exorcist and Academy Award-winning screenplay adapting same; Martin Stanislaus Brennan – American priest and scientist; wrote books about science and religion; Heywood Broun – American journalist who covered social justice issues, a convert

  5. Arthur Conan Doyle - Wikipedia

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    Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson.

  6. William Nightingale - Wikipedia

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    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

  7. List of feminist literature - Wikipedia

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    A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest, Mary Astell (1694) An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. In Which Are Inserted the Characters of a Pedant, a Squire, a Beau, a Vertuoso, a Poetaster, a City-Critick, &c. In a Letter to a Lady. Written by a Lady, Judith Drake (1697) [15]

  8. Sophie Treadwell - Wikipedia

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    That two-day interview gained Treadwell notoriety in the journalism field as well as provided a basis for Sophie's first Broadway play Gringo and her later novel Lusita. [1] In 1941, Sophie spent 10 months in Mexico City as a correspondent for the Tribune. Years later, Treadwell wrote for the Tribune about her visit to post-war Germany. [2] [3]

  9. May Sinclair - Wikipedia

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    May Sinclair was the pseudonym of Mary Amelia St. Clair (24 August 1863 – 14 November 1946), a popular British writer who wrote about two dozen novels, short stories and poetry. [1] She was an active suffragist, and member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League. She once dressed up as a demure, rebel Jane Austen for a suffrage fundraising ...