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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood is an autobiographical comedy book written by South African comedian Trevor Noah, published in 2016. The book focuses on Noah's childhood growing up in his native South Africa after he was born of an illegal interracial relationship during the apartheid era. The book was a bestseller and has ...
The article notes that the book title was a clue in a crossword puzzle. The answer they were looking for was TREVORNOAH. When I did that puzzle one evening, I had vaguely heard of Noah (I'm not a TV watcher), and when I looked for Born a Crime in Wikipedia, it didn't have an article. Thinking that the book was probably notable, even if I had ...
The book dealt with an anti-hero character named after Jomo Kenyatta that ran an organization similar to the Black Panthers to clear the ghetto of crime. In his book The Low Road, Eddie B. Allen remarks that the series was a departure from some of Goines's other works, with the character of Kenyatta symbolizing a sense of liberation for Goines. [5]
Born documents Frank Castle's time serving as a captain in the United States Marine Corps during his final tour in Vietnam in 1971. The story is told primarily through the eyes of Stevie Goodwin, a young Marine counting down the days of his service and Frank Castle, a tough Captain with a finely honed killer instinct and survival skills who is described as being "in love with war".
Born Free is a book by Joy Adamson. Released in 1960 by Pantheon Books , it describes Adamson's experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa . It was translated into several languages, and made into an Academy Award -winning 1966 film of the same name .
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On 28 September 2010 BBC Four ran a number of programs to mark the 50th anniversary of the publishing of the book, Born Free. [15] These included a new one hour documentary entitled 'The Born Free Legacy'. [16] It explores the story behind the book 'Born Free' about the lives of Joy and George Adamson with the orphaned lion cub Elsa.
This is a list of crime writers with a Wikipedia page. They may include the authors of any subgenre of crime fiction , including detective , mystery or hard-boiled . Some of these may overlap with the List of thriller authors .