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Roxana Robinson (née Barry; born 30 November 1946) is an American novelist and biographer whose fiction explores the complexity of familial bonds and fault lines.She is best known for her 2008 novel, Cost, which was named one of the Five Best Novels of the Year [2] by The Washington Post.
Dark and Perfect Angels, Southwest Book Award 1996 (Border Regional Library Association) Grandma Fina and Her Wonderful Umbrellas, Best Children's Book 2000, Texas Institute of Letters; Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood, Americas Book Award, the Paterson Book Prize, the J Hunt Award, Finalist Los Angeles Book Prize, BBYA Top Ten Books for Young Adults
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Each volume is illustrated by relevant drawings, paintings, or photographs of the authors as well as title pages of their works. [4] As of 2006, the series had 375 volumes, which included 23 yearbooks and 45 documentary volumes. Altogether, the series included 13,500 author biographies. [1] The DLB exists in both print and electronic versions. [1]
In 1993 he settled in New York, and in 1995 won a WH Smith Award for his third book Black Out. He went back into television in England in 1997, and by 1999 had dropped off the TV and books map completely. He returned in 2001 with Riptide (American title: Bluffing Mr. Churchill), which was snapped up by Columbia Pictures. For most of the 21st ...
The New York Times Book Review called it “a strange and beautiful hybrid.” [7] She is the author of the novel Cake (2008); a memoir, Changeling (2010); and a guide to Western literature, The Western Lit Survival Kit: How to Read the Classics Without Fear (2012). She is the co-author of How Not To Write A Novel (2008) and Read This Next (2010).
He is the author of three collections of short stories and three novels. City of Bohane (2011) was the winner of the 2013 International Dublin Literary Award . Beatlebone (2015) won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize and is one of seven books by Irish authors nominated for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award , [ 1 ] the world's most valuable ...
Patrick Radden Keefe (born 1976) is an American writer and investigative journalist. [1] He is the author of five books—Chatter, The Snakehead, Say Nothing, Empire of Pain, and Rogues—and has written extensively for many publications, including The New Yorker, Slate, and The New York Times Magazine.