Freddie Gershon was an entertainment attorney, lecturer in entertainment law, published author of Sweetie, Baby, Cookie, Honey, a hugely successful roman a clef novel about the music industry of 1960s thru 1980s, and former COO of the Stigwood Group of companies and current co-owner ( with Sir Cameron Mackintosh ) of and CEO Chairman of Music Theatre International, largest secondary rights of dramatic performing rights organizations in the world.

Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.

Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.

A few months later, the novel was serialized in the March, April, and May 1954 issues of Playboy.

Louisa May Alcott ( November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888 ) was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo's Boys.

* 1876: In Louisa May Alcott's novel Rose in Bloom, the main character Rose mentions that her family, the Campbells, are rather proud of being descended from Robert the Bruce.

* Xandra Bingley in her 2005 novel Bertie, May and Mrs Fish.

In May 2006, Petersen's $ 160 million epic film Poseidon, a re-telling of the 1969 Paul Gallico novel ( and popular 1972 disaster film ) The Poseidon Adventure, was released by Warner Bros., but performed poorly in the US, barely cracking $ 60 million in box office receipts by early August, although international profits surpassed $ 121 million.

* Work: A Story of Experience, a 1873 novel by Louisa May Alcott

* The novel Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years takes place from April 30, 1997 to May 2, 1998.

* May – Jack London's novel White Fang is serialized in The Outing Magazine.

* May 30 – Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind is first published.

* May 26 – Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.

* May 5 – The novel To the Lighthouse was finished by Virginia Woolf.

Between May 1839 and February 1840, Fraser's published the work sometimes considered Thackeray's first novel, Catherine, originally intended as a satire of the Newgate school of crime fiction but ending up more as a rollicking picaresque tale in its own right.

The novel was also adapted as a Broadway musical, called A Time for Singing, which opened at the Broadway Theatre, New York, on 21 May 1966.

Hanks's next endeavor, released on May 15, 2009, was a film adaptation of Angels & Demons, based on the novel of the same name by Dan Brown.

The novel, somewhat abridged, was originally serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ( May, June, July 1954 ) as " Star Lummox " and then published in hardcover as part of Scribner's series of Heinlein juveniles.

These include Skullion in Porterhouse Blue ( for Channel 4 ), Sidney " Pop " Larkin in the rural idyll The Darling Buds of May ( Yorkshire Television / ITV ) and based on the H. E. Bates novel, which also featured the then unknown Catherine Zeta-Jones.

In Britain, the legal maximum speed of precluded road racing, but in April and May 1900, the Automobile Club of Great Britain ( the forerunner of the Royal Automobile Club ) organised the Thousand Mile Trial, a 15-day event linking Britain's major cities, in order to promote this novel form of transport.

Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott ( 1832 – 1888 ).

Ruth MacDonald argued that “ Louisa May Alcott stands as one of the great American practitioners of the girls ’ novel and the family story .” In the 1860s, gendered separation of children ’ s fiction was a newer division in literature.

Remarque and Zambone divorced in 1930, but fled together to his home in Porto Ronco, Switzerland in 1933 when the Nazis took over Germany ; in May 1933, his novel All Quiet on the Western Front was burned in one of the first of the Nazi book burnings and it became clear that neither Remarque nor Zambona could return to Germany.

The novel was republished as a single paperback volume on May 5, 1997.

Three others are notable: Albert Höllerer, a pilot in World War II, appeared briefly and had his story summarized in Swamp Thing # 47 ( May 1986 ), and Aaron Hayley appeared in the Swamp Thing: Roots graphic novel ( 1998 ) set in the 1940s, and Alan Hallman, the Swamp Thing of the 1950s and 1960s, introduced in Vol.

Wouk's novel goes into much greater detail about Ensign Keith's experiences in midshipman school and in his early relationship with his girlfriend May Wynn.

* Edward makes an appearance in the novel By Right of Arms, by Robyn Carr, as a supporter and friend of the main character.

In 1950, John Dickson Carr produced a novel called The Bride of Newgate, set at the close of the Napoleonic Wars, possibly the second full-length historical whodunnit.

* Rafael Sabatini's novel about the rise and fall of Robert Carr, The King's Minion ( 1930 ), argues Overbury's poisoning was ordered by James I and carried out by his personal physician after the failed attempts by Lady Essex and her conspirators.

The movie was adapted by Harry Carr, Forrest Halsey, Agnes Christine Johnston, and Edwin Justus Mayer from the novel The Divine Lady: a Romance of Nelson and Emma Hamilton by E. Barrington.

( The Hollow Man ( U. S. title: The Three Coffins ), a novel by John Dickson Carr )

( The Case of the Constant Suicides, a novel by John Dickson Carr )

His novel The Hollow Man was voted the best locked room mystery novel of all time by 17 authors and reviewers, although Carr himself names Gaston Leroux's The Mystery of the Yellow Room as his favorite.

E. H. Carr writes of Dostoevsky's character the young student Raskolnikov in the novel Crime and Punishment who decides to murder a ' vile and loathsome ' old woman money lender on the principle of transcending conventional morals: " the sequel reveals to us not the pangs of a stricken conscience ( which a less subtle writer would have given us ) but the tragic and fruitless struggle of a powerful intellect to maintain a conviction which is incompatible with the essential nature of man.

* The first Sir Henry Merrivale mystery novel is published by John Dickson Carr writing as " Carter Dickson ".

* J. L. Carr takes over as headmaster of Highfields Primary School, Kettering, which will eventually furnish the subject matter for his novel, The Harpole Report.

* John Dickson Carr writing as " Carter Dickson " publishes his final Sir Henry Merrivale mystery novel.

* The Clapham Wonder ( 1978, based on the novel The Vet's Daughter by Barbara Comyns Carr )

Each part of the novel is introduced by a reproduction of an actual Carr painting.

* He appears in the novel The Italian Secretary ( 2005 ) by Caleb Carr.

The novel Captain Cut-Throat by John Dickson Carr, set in Napoleonic France in 1805, when the invasion of England was planned, portrays Fouché scheming and counter-scheming various complicated plots.

The novel is about an ambitious young film director, named Jock Finley, who uses two prominent film stars Carr and Daisy Donnel ( ostensibly based on John Wayne and Marilyn Monroe ) to rebuild his already damaged career.

* Killing Time ( Carr novel ), a 2000 novel by Caleb Carr

* The Hollow Man ( 1935 novel ), a locked room mystery novel by John Dickson Carr

* Jesse Pomeroy appears in the novel The Alienist by Caleb Carr

Luke Skywalker takes his nephew Jacen Solo with him to Belkaden to find out what the Yuuzhan Vong have done there after the late Yomin Carr poisoned it for terraforming in the previous novel.