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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 ...
Bloody Jack: Being An Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary “Jacky” Faber, Ship's Boy is a historical novel by L.A. Meyer, published by Harcourt Children's Books in September 2002. It is centered on an orphaned girl in London in the early 19th century.
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Ivan Doig (/ ˈ aɪ v ən ˈ d ɔɪ ɡ /; June 27, 1939 – April 9, 2015) was an American author and novelist, widely known for his sixteen fiction and non-fiction books set mostly in his native Montana, celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West.
Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical is a 2001 book by Anthony Bourdain about Mary Mallon a.k.a. "Typhoid Mary", published by Bloomsbury USA. The book is an entry in the "Urban Historical" collection. Tim Carman, of The Washington Post, described it as "an odd, unlikely follow-up to" Kitchen Confidential. [1]
In 2008, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, was a New York Times Top 10 Bestseller as well as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; it was a San Francisco Chronicle #1 bestseller and made it to the Boston Sunday Globe′s Top 5 Science Books. Bonk was also a Booksense Independent Bestseller and the Publishers Weekly 2008 ...
A Mary Christmas is admittedly a great title, but it may be the most memorable thing about Mary J. Blige’s blandly professional holiday album. Recording with veteran adult contemporary producer ...