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John Gerard Braine (13 April 1922 – 28 October 1986) [1] was an English novelist. Braine is usually listed among the angry young men , a loosely defined group of English writers who emerged on the literary scene in the 1950s.
Brandon was born John Gordon Joyce on 8 March 1879 in Richmond, Victoria and was baptised at St Ignatius' Church, Richmond, on 22 July 1883. He was the first son of actors John Gordon Joyce (1836–1903) and Mary Emma Bate (1858–1915).
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is an autobiographical comedy book written by South African comedian Trevor Noah, published in 2016. The book focuses on Noah's childhood growing up in his native South Africa after he was born of an illegal interracial relationship during the apartheid era.
A simile (/ ˈ s ɪ m əl i /) is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. [1] [2] Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while metaphors often create an implicit comparison (i.e. saying something "is" something else). However, there are ...
John Michael Ward Bingham, 7th Baron Clanmorris (3 November 1908 – 6 August 1988) was a one time MI5 counterspy and an English novelist who published 17 thrillers, detective novels, and spy novels. Personal life
John William Wainwright (25 February 1921 – 19 September 1995) was an English crime novelist and author of 83 books, four of which have been published under the pen name Jack Ripley. He also wrote some short stories (mostly uncollected in book format), seven radio plays, and an indefinite amount of magazine articles and newspaper columns.
John Shannon (born November 29, 1943) is a contemporary American author, lately of detective fiction. He began his career with four well-reviewed novels in the 1970s and 1980s, then in 1996 launched the Jack Liffey mystery series. He cites as his literary influences Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Graham Greene, Robert Stone and Jim Harrison.
John Douglas Mole (born 1941) is an English poet for adults and children, born in Taunton. [1] He is also a jazz clarinetist. [1] Mole graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge University, and began his career as a teacher. With the poet Peter Scupham he was co-editor of the Mandeville Press publishing house in Hitchin.