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Eliza Acton (1799–1859), poet, cook, early cookbook writer, author of the influential Modern Cookery for Private Families (1845) Zoe Adjonyoh (born 1977), British writer and cook; Gretel Beer (1921–2010), Austrian-born cookbook and travel writer, columnist; Isabella Beeton (1836–1865), author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, 1861
Laura Jane Haddock (born 21 August 1985) [1] is a British actress. She is known for portraying Zoë Walker in White Lines, Max Meladze in The Recruit, Lucrezia in Da Vinci's Demons, Meredith Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy and its sequel Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and Viviane Wembly in Transformers: The Last Knight.
Anne Roiphe (born December 25, 1935) is an American writer and journalist. She is best known as a first-generation feminist and author of the novel Up the Sandbox (1970), filmed as a starring vehicle for Barbra Streisand in 1972. [1]
Hailey Abbott is an American author of teenage romance novels. She grew up in southern California where she split her time between creative writing and the beach. She now lives in New York City. [1] Her first book was Summer Boys, published in 2004, the first of a series. It was described as "escapist beach reading" by School Library Journal. [2]
Arthur Frederick Hailey, AE (5 April 1920 – 24 November 2004) was a British/Canadian novelist whose plot-driven storylines were set against the backdrops of various industries.
Her 2023 book Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom, a history of the escape of Ellen and William Craft from slavery, was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2023 by The New York Times, [8] one of the 100 must-read books of 2023 by Time, [9] and won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. [1]
Donald Barthelme was born in Philadelphia in 1931. His father and mother were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania.The family moved to Texas two years later and Barthelme's father became a professor of architecture at the University of Houston, where Barthelme would later study journalism. [2]
Her work includes Magonia, a young-adult space-fantasy novel, Queen of Kings, an alternate-history fantasy novel about Cleopatra, and The Mere Wife, a retelling of Beowulf. Her short story "Give Her Honey When You Hear Her Scream", originally published in Lightspeed magazine in July 2012, was a 2012 Nebula Award nominee in the short story ...