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"Cancel All Plans for the Book You Can't Put Down Award" - Dead Good Books at the Harrogate Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in 2019 [12] Our Little Cruelties [13] Nominated for 'Crime Novel of the Year' at the 2020 An Post Irish Book Awards [14] Listed by the New York Times as one of 7 recommended thrillers of 2020 [15]
Diana Omo Evans FRSL (born 1972) [1] is a British novelist, journalist and critic who was born and lives in London. Evans has written four full-length novels. Her first novel, 26a, published in 2005, won the Orange Award for New Writers, [2] the Betty Trask Award [3] and the deciBel Writer of the Year award. [4]
Kaveh Akbar (b. 15 January 1989; Persian: کاوه اکبر) is an Iranian American poet, novelist, and editor. [1] [2] He is the author of the poetry collections Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Pilgrim Bell and of the novel Martyr!, a New York Times bestseller, [3] National Book Award finalist, [4] and one of Barack Obama's favorite books of the year.
Reflecting on Hoover's success in 2022, Alexandra Alter of The New York Times wrote, "To say she's currently the best-selling novelist in the United States, to even compare her to other successful authors who have landed several books on the best seller lists, fails to capture the size and loyalty of her audience." [3] [43]
Klay grew up in Westchester, New York, the son of Marie-Therese F. Klay and William D. Klay. [2] His family background included several examples of public service. His maternal grandfather was a career diplomat and his father a Peace Corps volunteer; for years his mother worked in international medical assistance. [3]
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).
Adam Johnson (born July 12, 1967) is an American novelist and short story writer. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2012 novel, The Orphan Master's Son, and the National Book Award for his 2015 story collection Fortune Smiles.
Biographical criticism is a form of literary criticism which analyzes a writer's biography to show the relationship between the author's life and their literary works. [7] Biographical criticism is often associated with historical-biographical criticism , [ 8 ] a critical method that "sees a literary work chiefly, if not exclusively, as a ...