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12. ‘James’ by Percival Everett. Percival Everett’s novel James puts the escaped slave Jim from Mark Twain’s 1884 novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at the centre of a droll, wise and ...
This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language. While finding precise sales numbers for any given author is nearly impossible, the list is based on approximate numbers provided or repeated by reliable sources. "Best selling" refers to the estimated number of copies sold of all fiction books written or co-written by an ...
Martin has been criticized by some of his readers for the long periods between books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series, notably the six-year gap between the fourth volume, A Feast for Crows (2005), and the fifth volume, A Dance with Dragons (2011), and the fact that The Winds of Winter, the next volume in the series, is still unpublished as ...
Marele Day (born 4 May 1947) is an Australian author of mystery novels. She won the Shamus Award for her first Claudia Valentine novel [ 1 ] and a Ned Kelly Award for non-fiction work How to Write Crime .
Robinson was born Marilynne Summers on November 26, 1943, in Sandpoint, Idaho, the daughter of Ellen (Harris) and John J. Summers, a lumber company employee. [7] [8] [9] Her brother is the art historian David Summers, who dedicated his book Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting to her.
Mary Anna Day (1852–1924), American botanist and librarian; Mary E. Day, in the 2005 Supreme Court opinion Varian v. Delfino; Mary L. Day (1836–?), American memoirist; Mary Gage Day (1857–1935), American physician and medical writer; Mary Louise Day (1968–2017), teenage girl who mysteriously disappeared from her home
Mary J. Blige was born in the Bronx in the early ’70s, much like hip-hop itself. By the time she came of age in the projects of Yonkers, she was singing backup for rappers like Father MC […]
Doig was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana [5] to Charles "Charlie" Doig, ranch hand and Berneta Ringer Doig. [5] After the death of his mother on his sixth birthday, he was raised briefly (1947 - 1949) by his father and his father's second wife, Fern White, who had been hired as a ranch cook, and later by his father and his maternal grandmother, Elizabeth "Bessie" Ringer.