Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, [2] the youngest of three children, to Yetta Helen (née Jasspon) and Solomon Z. Kunitz, [3] both of Jewish Russian Lithuanian descent. [4] Six weeks before Stanley's birth, his father, who was a dressmaker, [4] went bankrupt and committed suicide in Elm Park in Worcester [5] [6] by drinking carbolic ...
This is a list of notable books by young authors and of books written by notable writers in their early years. These books were written, or substantially completed, before the author's twentieth birthday. Alexandra Adornetto (born 18 April 1994) wrote her debut novel, The Shadow Thief, when she was 13. It was published in 2007. Other books ...
This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
The 20th Century's Greatest Hits: 100 English-Language Books of Fiction is a list of the 100 best English-language books of the 20th century compiled by American literary critic Larry McCaffery. The list was created largely in response to the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list (1999), which McCaffery considered out of touch with 20th-century ...
This is a partial list of 20th-century writers. This list includes notable artists, authors, philosophers, playwrights, poets, scientists and other important and noteworthy contributors to literature. The two most basic written literary categories include fiction and non fiction
Five Children and It (1902) Five on a Treasure Island (1942) The Hobbit (1937) The House at Pooh Corner (1928) Just Jane (1928) Just William (1922) The Little Grey Men (1942) The Little Lost Hen (1946) A Little Princess (1905) The Lord of the Rings (books completed by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1948) The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) The Two Towers (1954)
Literature of the 20th century refers to world literature produced during the 20th century (1901 to 2000). The main periods in question are often grouped by scholars as Modernist literature, Postmodern literature, flowering from roughly 1900 to 1940 and 1960 to 1990 [1] respectively, roughly using World War II as a transition point.
Allan Ahlberg is an English writer known for several best-selling children's books, both full of poetry and children's literature, illustrated by his wife Janet. [32] Arna Bontemps (1902 - 1973) born in Alexandria, Louisiana and raised in California, is one of the most well known black writers of the twentieth century. [33]