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Adriana Trigiani stone at Southwest Virginia Museum. Trigiani authored the best-selling Big Stone Gap series, including Big Stone Gap (2000), [6] Big Cherry Holler (2001), Milk Glass Moon (2002), and Home to Big Stone Gap (2006), set in her Virginia hometown; and the bestselling Valentine trilogy, the tale of a woman working to save her family's shoe company in Greenwich Village.
Ann Arbor is a city in and the county seat of Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan.Founded in 1824 by John Allen and Elisha Rumsey, it was named after the wives of the village's founders, both named Ann, and the stands of bur oak trees they found there.
The title of the book might have been inspired by Pat Lowther's poetry collection A Stone Diary . Lowther's murder in 1975 was the inspiration for Shields' earlier novel Swann: A Mystery . [3] Part of the setting for the book is the historic Vinegar Hill neighborhood of Bloomington, Indiana. [4]
The genre rose to prominence in the 1930s with best-selling works by authors such as Robert Graves, Thomas Mann, Irving Stone and Lion Feuchtwanger. These books became best-sellers, but the genre was dismissed by literary critics. In later years it became more accepted and has become both a popular and critically accepted genre. [1]
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Adria Locke Langley (1899 – August 14, 1983) was an American writer best known for her first novel, published in 1945, the best seller A Lion Is in the Streets based on the life of Huey Long. It was made into a film of the same name in 1953. She also was a fervent supporter of the repeal of Prohibition. [1] [2] [3]
After the Devil Trilogy Stone wrote the Rune Duology, which is situated in the same world. The first part The Eighth Rune was published in September 2011, the second part The First God in September 2012. [20] After Rune, Stone wrote a new series (title: Magycker), which plays in a completely new world. [21] The first part The Claw was published ...
Stone wrote a dozen biographical novels, but this one and Lust for Life (1934) are best known, in large part because both had major Hollywood film adaptations. Part of the 1961 novel was adapted to film in The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965), starring Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as Pope Julius II .