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Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam War veteran, and a former NASA engineer who trained the first Japanese astronauts. His 1998 memoir Rocket Boys (also published as October Sky) was a New York Times Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film October Sky. Hickam's body of written work also ...
Shirley MacLaine. Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934) [1] is an American actress and author. With a career spanning over 70 years, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Volpi Cups, and two Silver Bears.
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier is a 2007 memoir written by Ishmael Beah, an author from Sierra Leone. The book is a firsthand account of Beah's time as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone Civil War in the 1990s. [1] The book describes the change from Beah being an innocent child to being corrupted by war and its effects.
When Asia’s biggest electronic dance music festival announced that its 2024 edition will return to India’s picturesque beach destination of Goa, the local community was alarmed.. Started by ...
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That way, when my quilts were hung up to look at, or photographed for a book, people could still read my stories." [ 33 ] Her first quilt story Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima? (1983) depicts the story of Aunt Jemima as a matriarch restaurateur and fictionally revises "the most maligned black female stereotype."
Ruby Bridges. For the 1998 television film, see Ruby Bridges (film). Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites -only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960 ...
Education. Cornell University (BA) University of Rochester (PhD) Genre. Mystery, Thriller. Notable works. The Butcher's Boy, Metzger's Dog, Jane Whitefield series. Thomas Perry (born 1947) is an American mystery and thriller novelist. He received a 1983 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel for The Butcher's Boy.