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He eventually managed to finish the book and it became a best seller. [3] Crichton started writing the screenplay in 1981 after completing the film Looker. [4] He had enjoyed working with Sean Connery on The Great Train Robbery and wrote Congo hoping to make the film version with Connery in the lead and Crichton to direct. [3]
Crichton did the screenplay for Congo after he wrote and directed Looker (1981). [48] [47] Looker was a financial disappointment. Crichton came close to directing a film of Congo with Sean Connery, but the film did not happen. [49] Eventually, a film version was made in 1995 by Frank Marshall. In 1984, Telarium released a graphic adventure ...
Siddharth Kara is an Indian author. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a British Academy Global Professor, and an associate professor at the University of Nottingham.He is best known for his book Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (2023).
Heart of Darkness is an 1899 novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad in which the sailor Charles Marlow tells his listeners the story of his assignment as steamer captain for a Belgian company in the African interior.
Charity Waciuma (born 1936) is a Kenyan writer, who wrote several novels for adolescents and an autobiographical novel, Daughter of Mumbi (1969). Her work draws on Kikuyu legends and storytelling traditions. [1] In the 1960s Waciuma and Grace Ogot became the first Kenyan women writers to be published in English. [2]
Patrick Marnham (born 1943) is an English writer, journalist and biographer. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Literature in 1988. He is primarily known for his travel writing and for his biographies, where he has covered subjects as diverse as Diego Rivera, Georges Simenon, Jean Moulin and Mary Wesley.
Book deserts are places where books are hard to come by. High schooler Rania Zuri started The LiTEArary Society, a charity in West Virginia, to fix them.
Life After Life received the Costa Book Award for Novel in 2013, and was adapted for television in 2022 . Atkinson's next novel A God in Ruins (2015) follows the life of Ursula's brother Teddy Todd who is a pilot in the Royal Air Force during the war, but is more realistic than Life After Life. This book also won the Costa Book Award for Novel.