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Oprah's Book Club. Oprah's Book Club was a book discussion club segment of the American talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, highlighting books chosen by host Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey started the book club in 1996, selecting a new book, usually a novel, for viewers to read and discuss each month. [1] [2] [3] In total, the club recommended 70 books ...
A Beautiful Mind. (book) A Beautiful Mind (1998) is an unauthorized biography of Nobel Prize -winning economist and mathematician John Nash by Sylvia Nasar, professor of journalism at Columbia University . It won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in biography.
C. W. A. Scott's Book: The Life and Mildenhall-Melbourne Flight of C.W.A. Scott: 1934 Beirne Lay Jr. I Wanted Wings: 1937 Frank Glasgow Tinker: Some Still Live: 1938 Louise Thaden: High, Wide and Frightened: 1938 Igor Sikorsky: The Story of the Winged-S: 1939 Richard Hillary: The Last Enemy: 1940 Beryl Markham: West with the Night: 1942 Ted W ...
General nonfiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category continuous only from 1984, when the general award was restored after two decades of awards in several nonfiction categories. From 1935 to 1941 there were six annual awards for general nonfiction, two for biography, and the Bookseller Discovery or Most Original Book was ...
Despite their best intentions, it’s clear that celebrity book clubs are influenced by the same ouroboros of nepotism that affects the rest of the business, just like blurbs or review coverage ...
Mud, Sweat, and Tears. My Autobiography (Chaplin book) My Family and Other Animals. My Life (Mosley autobiography) My Life in Orange. My Shit Life So Far. My Story (Kray book) My Take. My Turn to Make the Tea.
Biography: a written narrative of a person's life; an autobiography is a self-written biography. Memoir : a biographical account of a particular event or period in a person's life (rather than their whole life) drawn from personal knowledge or special sources (such as the spouse of the subject).
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer ...