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Joseph A. Kane (born 1953) [1] is an American author and journalist who writes for publications such as The New Yorker, National Geographic, [2] and Esquire. [3]Kane's book, Running the Amazon (1989) is a first-hand account of the only expedition ever to travel the entire 4,200-mile (6,800 km) Amazon River from its source in Peru to the Atlantic Ocean, [4] which took place between August 1985 ...
Historian and author William Hogeland affirms Morgan's success in enshrining a "consensus approach" to U.S. history, where colonists' ideas, rather than their possible economic interests, were worthy of inspection by 20th century historians. [28] "He was out to define something essential in the American character and thereby create a new master ...
Gary Leslie Whitta (born 21 July 1972) is an English-American screenwriter, author, game designer, and video game journalist.He was the editor-in-chief of both the UK and US editions of PC Gamer magazine and a contributor to the gaming magazine ACE.
As customer reviews have become integral to Amazon marketing, reviews have been challenged on accuracy and ethical grounds. [356] In 2004, The New York Times [357] reported that a glitch in the Amazon Canada website revealed that a number of book reviews had been written by authors of their own books or of competing books. Amazon changed its ...
Styron was born in the Hilton Village historic district [2] of Newport News, Virginia, the son of Pauline Margaret (Abraham) and William Clark Styron. [1] His birthplace was less than a hundred miles from the site of Nat Turner's slave rebellion, the inspiration for Styron's most famous and controversial novel.
Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) [3] was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction [4] and for his outspoken, combative personality. [5]
John Locke (born 1951) is a writer and novelist who was the eighth author—and first self-published author—to sell over one million eBooks on Amazon.com. [1] Locke is a New York Times best-selling author, and is best known for his Donovan Creed thriller series and Emmett Love Western series. [2] [3] [4] His works are self-published worldwide.
David John Lodge CBE FRSL (born 28 January 1935) is an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988).