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The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and nearly all life.
William B. Murphy (January 9, 1908 – July 2, 1970) was an American film editor who, in the course of a twenty-year career, served as president of American Cinema Editors (ACE) from 1952 to 1955 and was distinguished in 1966 with ACE's Eddie Award for his work on the science fiction film, Fantastic Voyage, which also earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Editing.
The first book to achieve a sale price of greater than $1 million was a copy of the Gutenberg Bible which sold for $2.4 million in 1978. The most copies of a single book sold for a price over $1 million is John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1827–1838), which is represented by eight different copies in this list.
This is a list of San Francisco Bay Area writers, notable writers who have lived in, or written about, the San Francisco Bay Area This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The First Third (1971, autobiographical novel), published three years after Cassady's death; As Ever: The Collected Correspondence of Allen Ginsberg & Neal Cassady. Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Company, 1977. ISBN 978-0916870089; Grace Beats Karma: Letters from Prison (collection of poetry and letters). New York, NY: Blast Books, 1993.
Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990–2003. New York: Knopf. (2004). Americans & the California Dream Series by Kevin Starr, published by Oxford University Press. Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915. (1973) Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era. (1985) Material Dreams: Southern California through the ...
But in 1984, he was paroled to California, Thomas said. On Feb. 22, 1986, South Pasadena Police responded to a report of a woman lying in the road on Banks Street, Thomas said.
June 8 – Murray Leinster (William Fitzgerald Jenkins), American science fiction writer (born 1896) July 10 – Peter Frederick Anson , English writer on religion and maritime matters (born 1889 ) September 20 – Saint-John Perse (Alexis Leger), French poet and Nobel laureate (born 1887 )