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Mr. X is a 1999 horror mystery novel by American writer Peter Straub. The book won the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel [1] and was a 2001 August Derleth Award nominee. [2] The novel is a tribute to H. P. Lovecraft. [3] [4]
“Oh, Mr. Frank,” wrote one American girl, “she is so much like me that sometimes I do not know where myself begins and Anne Frank ends.” 10. “Mr. Muhammad Speaks” by Alex Haley, March 1960
Jerry Lane Stovall (born April 30, 1941), nicknamed "Mr. Everything", is an American former football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He played college football for the LSU Tigers , where he was a unanimous selection to the 1962 College Football All-America Team as a halfback .
Come celebrate Reader's Digest's 100th anniversary with a century of funny jokes, moving quotes, heartwarming stories, and riveting dramas. The post 100 Years of Reader’s Digest: People, Stories ...
Among literary awards, he has received the 1994 TLS/George Bernard Shaw Translation Prize for his translation of Gösta Ågren's poems, A Valley In The Midst of Violence, published by Bloodaxe, and the 2006 Stora Pris of the Finland-Swedish Writers' Association (Finlands svenska författareförening), Helsinki.
Stovall grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, attended Ridge View High School, and played college soccer at the University of South Carolina. During his college years he also played with both Greenville Lions and the Southern California Seahorses in the USL Premier Development League .
Ray Russell (September 4, 1924 – March 15, 1999) was an American editor and writer of short stories, novels, and screenplays. Russell is best known for his horror fiction, although he also wrote mystery and science fiction stories.
Groff Conklin called Someone Like You "certainly the most distinguished book of short stories of 1953 ... all superb". [2] Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas praised the collection's "subtly devastating murder stories [as well as] two biting science-fantasties, plus a few unclassifiable gems" and concluded the volume "belong[ed] on your shelves somewhere in the Beerbohm/Collier/Saki section".