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John Shirley (born February 10, 1953) is an American writer, primarily of horror, fantasy, science fiction, dark street fiction, westerns, and songwriting. He has also written one historical novel, a western about Wyatt Earp, Wyatt in Wichita, and one non-fiction book, Gurdjieff: An Introduction to His Life and Ideas.
First edition (Houghton Mifflin, 1971)The Paper Chase is a 1971 novel written by John Jay Osborn Jr., a 1970 graduate of Harvard Law School.The book tells the story of Hart, a first-year law student at Harvard, and his experiences with Professor Charles Kingsfield, a brilliant and demanding contracts instructor whom he both idolizes and finds incredibly intimidating.
The Summons is a legal thriller novel written by American author John Grisham, [1] first published in February 2002. Known for his courtroom dramas , Grisham once again explores the legal world in this novel, though with a significant departure into family dynamics and mystery.
The Bastard is a historical novel written by John Jakes and originally published in 1974. It is book one in a series known as The Kent Family Chronicles or the American Bicentennial Series. [ 1 ] The novel mixes fictional characters with historical events or people, to tell the story of the United States of America in the time period leading up ...
The Rebels is a historical novel written by John Jakes, originally published in 1975, the second in a series known as The Kent Family Chronicles or the American Bicentennial Series. The novel mixes fictional characters with historical events and figures, to narrate the story of the nascent United States of America during the time of the ...
The Runaway Jury is a legal thriller novel written by American author John Grisham. [1] [2] It was Grisham's seventh novel. The hardcover first edition was published by Doubleday Books in 1996 (ISBN 0-385-47294-3). Pearson Longman released the graded reader edition in 2001 (ISBN 0-582-43405-X).
The Quirke series of crime novels, written by Irish novelist John Banville, centres on the titular character, a pathologist in 1950s Dublin.The first seven volumes in the series (published 2007–2016) appeared under the pen name Benjamin Black: subsequent volumes have appeared under Banville's own name.
Wyndham's first published sf story, "Worlds to Barter", was published in the May 1931 issue of Wonder Stories, under his pen name John Beynon Harris. Wyndham/Harris as pictured in the May 1931 Wonder Stories Wyndham's second story, "The Lost Machine", was cover-featured on the April 1932 issue of Amazing Stories, also under his Harris pen name Wyndham's 1934 novelette "The Moon Devils" was the ...