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1919: The Year That Changed America is a 2019 non-fiction children's book by American author Martin W. Sandler.The book details various events from 1919, including the Great Molasses Flood in Boston, "which led to building code, municipal oversight, and corporate liability precedents", the Nineteenth Amendment's passing, racial tensions, the Red Scare, changing labor conditions, and the ...
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is the debut novel by Vietnamese American poet Ocean Vuong, published by Penguin Press on June 4, 2019. [1] An epistolary novel, it is written in the form of a letter from a Vietnamese American son to his illiterate mother.
American book editor and writer, best known for her astronomy books [123] [124] Lorna McDonald: 1916–2017: 100: Australian author and historian [125] Joe Medicine Crow: 1913–2016: 102: American Crow historian and author [126] Polly Allen Mellen: 1924–2024: 100: American fashion editor and stylist [127] Louise Meriwether: 1923–2023: 100 ...
The title of the book, Melania, appears in white on a plain black background on the cover. The design and font appear to be extremely close to the 2020 book by French author Patrick Mauries, The ...
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is an American speculative fiction author who wrote the short-story collection Friday Black (2018) and his debut novel Chain-Gang All-Stars (2023). He was named one of "5 under 35 Authors" by the National Book Foundation in 2018 and won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award in 2019. [3]
Anthony Lander Horwitz (June 9, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was an American journalist and author who wrote articles and several books. He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting . He wrote about subjects including American history and society.
Alan David Brinkley (June 2, 1949 – June 16, 2019) [1] [2] was an American political historian who taught for over 20 years at Columbia University. He was the Allan Nevins Professor of History until his death. From 2003 to 2009, he was University Provost. [3]
Jamel Brinkley was raised in Brooklyn and the Bronx, New York City.He graduated from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he teaches. [1] [2] [3]His first book, A Lucky Man, is set in New York City and explores themes of family relationships, love, loss, complex identity, and masculinity.