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Patricia Aakhus (1952–2012), The Voyage of Mael Duin's Curragh Rachel Aaron, Fortune's Pawn Atia Abawi Edward Abbey (1927–1989), The Monkey Wrench Gang Lynn Abbey (born 1948), Daughter of the Bright Moon Laura Abbot, My Name is Nell Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), Leah Mordecai Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), poet, novelist and short story writer Hailey Abbott, Summer Boys ...
Harold Robbins (May 21, 1916 – October 14, 1997) was an American author of popular novels. One of the best-selling writers of all time , he wrote over 25 best-sellers, selling over 750 million copies in 32 languages.
Nevil Shute (1899–1960), A Town Like Alice; Gareth Sibson (born 1977) Una Lucy Silberrad (1872–1955) Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning; Dorothy Simpson (born 1933), mystery novels; Helen Simpson (born 1957) Clive Sinclair (1948–2018) Sarah Singleton (born 1966) Indra Sinha (born 1950) Eleanor Sleath (1770 ...
By the 1970s Collins was a peer of successful male airport novel authors like Sidney Sheldon and Harold Robbins. [15]. Her third novel, Sunday Simmons & Charlie Brick (first published under the title The Hollywood Zoo in the UK and then retitled Sinners worldwide in 1984) was published in 1971 and again made the best-seller lists. This was ...
Canadian author, poet, journalist and publisher [120] Claire Martin: 1914–2014: 100: Canadian novelist [121] Lambert Mascarenhas: 1914–2021: 106: Indian journalist (The Navhind Times and Goa Today), independence activist and writer [122] Mildred Shapley Matthews: 1915–2016: 101: American book editor and writer, best known for her ...
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Like Valley, the book was considered a roman à clef, with Robin reportedly based on former CBS president James Aubrey. [ 47 ] Published by Simon & Schuster on May 14, 1969, the book was an immediate success: it spent 32 weeks (13 weeks at #1) on The New York Times Best Seller list , [ 48 ] and was the third highest-selling novel of its year ...
Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 [2] [disputed] – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion.