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Helen DeWitt (born 1957) is an American novelist. She is the author of the novels The Last Samurai (2000) and Lightning Rods (2011) and the short story collection Some Trick (2018) and, in collaboration with the Australian journalist Ilya Gridneff, has written Your Name Here . [ 1 ]
The Last Samurai (2000) is the first novel by American writer Helen DeWitt. It follows a single mother and her young son, a child prodigy, who embarks on a quest to find his father. Despite selling well and garnering critical acclaim on publication, it was out of print for almost a decade; when reissued in 2016, it received renewed praise and ...
According to Book Marks, the book received "rave" reviews based on twelve critic reviews with twelve being "rave". [5] On Bookmarks January/February 2023 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.00 out of 5) from based on critic reviews with a critical summary saying, "The English Understand Wool is "an essential, invigorating, and wickedly pleasurable ...
On The Omnivore, Lightning Rods received an "omniscore" of 3.5 out of 5 based on an aggregation of three critic reviews from British and American press reviews [2] and out of more publications it reported on reviews with a rating scale for the novel out of 5: The Financial Times and The Telegraph gave it a 5 and Independent and The TLS gave it a 4.5 and Guardian and The New York Times gave it ...
Helen DeWitt is best known for her vast, learned and hilarious novel 'The Last Samurai.' Her new novella packs the same punch into 60 delicious pages. Review: The author of a literary classic ...
The New York Times' 100 Best Books of the 21st Century is a ranked list of the 100 best novels published in ... Helen DeWitt: 2000 30: Sing, Unburied, Sing: Jesmyn ...
And Other Stories was founded in 2009 by Stefan Tobler. And Other Stories first came to the public's attention when its first book, Down the Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos (translated by Rosalind Harvey), was chosen by the public to be one of the 10 titles longlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award. [7]
Helen Cresswell (11 July 1934 – 26 September 2005) was an English television scriptwriter and author of more than 100 children's books, best known for comedy and supernatural fiction. Her most popular book series, Lizzie Dripping and The Bagthorpe Saga , were also the basis for television series.