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Day was one of a handful of blind authors familiar to American readers in mid-nineteenth-century. [3] She wrote two memoirs, Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl (1859) and The World as I Have Found It (1878). She sold copies of Incidents to support herself, traveling the United States with a companion, [4] and making personal appearances.
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 ...
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 ...
Jean Kerr (born Bridget Jean Collins; July 10, 1922 [2] – January 5, 2003) [a] was an American author and playwright who authored the 1957 bestseller Please Don't Eat the Daisies [b] and the plays King of Hearts in 1954 and Mary, Mary in 1961.
The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [4]
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volume, A Dance with Dragons (2011), and the fact that The Winds of Winter, the next volume in the series, is still unpublished as ...
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 […]