Alice Munro has a unique place in Booker Prize history ; The Beggar Maid is the only short story collection to have been shortlisted, doing so in 1980.

In turn, she has influenced Booker prize winners and other writers, such as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell — and notable futurism and fantasy writers like Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks.

The album, produced by Ethan Johns ( who has previously worked with Kings Of Leon, Rufus Wainwright and Laura Marling ), would include covers of songs by Bob Dylan, John Lee Hooker and Billy Joe Shaver, and feature such guest musicians as Booker T.

She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award seven times, winning twice.

On television, Burton has helped dramatize the last days of Jim Jones's suicide cult in Guyana, the life and times of Jesse Owens, and the life of the nine-year-old Booker T. Washington.

* Craig Stark is an actor and filmmaker who has appeared on the TV series Empty Nest, Paradise, and Booker.

It has billboards on the western and eastern edges of town along State Highway 15 that read " Booker: Next 9 Exits "-which is a reference to all the streets that run north-south ( N-S ) that meet the highway as it passes through town.

In the early 1980s Sly Stone was also part of a George Clinton / Funkadelic family project with Muruga Booker called " The Soda Jerks ," who recorded an album worth of material, all of which has gone unreleased, except for one song, however Muruga has plans of still releasing the project.

* William Trevor ( 1928present ), an acclaimed author, born and spent his early childhood in the town, he has been nominated for the Booker Prize on five occasions

Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker has been lauded for his Broken Windows-based approach to crime since taking office in 2006.

The novel has also directly influenced a number of other critically acclaimed books, including British author Graham Swift's 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel Last Orders and Suzan-Lori Parks's Getting Mother's Body: A Novel, which is a reimagining of Faulkner's novel from an African American point of view.

McEwan has been nominated for the Man Booker prize six times to date, winning the Prize for Amsterdam in 1998.

It was his debut novel and won the Booker Prize in 2003 and has been adapted as two different stage plays.

Mohsin Hamid published his first novel Moth Smoke ( 2000 ), which won the Betty Trask Award and was a finalist for the PEN / Hemingway Award ; he has since published his second novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist ( 2007 ), which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Booker is a hamlet within the parish of West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, England, which has absorbed into the expanding suburbs of High Wycombe.

The Givens Performing Arts Center hosts numerous Broadway shows, orchestras, shows geared towards children, and also hosts the " Distinguished Speaker Series ," in cooperation with the Association of Campus Entertainment, which has brought in notable people such as Cory Booker, Bill Nye, Jodi Sweetin, Patch Adams and Hill Harper, among many others.

Fiction by Irish authors has won considerable acclaim recently with two winners of the Booker Prize: John Banville's The Sea in 2005 and Anne Enright's The Gathering in 2007.

Lyons criticized a number of dangerous practices shown in the movie, and was particularly critical of the scene where Booker hobbles, ropes, and lays the exhausted horse on the ground, then has Grace get on the recumbent horse, which is then allowed to rise, and the horse and girl miraculously are both cured of their fears and once again a horse and rider team.

His victory over Booker T for the TNA Legends ( now Television ) Championship made him the first man to have ever won the TNA Grand Slam Championship, which he has done twice.

She is also an art critic and has been on the judging panels for the Man Booker Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Evening Standard British Film Awards.

He has written for television and is the author of over twenty novels including From Scenes Like These ( 1969 ), shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1969, Walk Don't Walk ( 1972 ) and Big Morning Blues ( 1974 ).

MacLaverty was educated at St Malachy's College and Queen's University in Belfast, and has written the novels Cal ; Lamb, a novel about faith, relationships and ultimately, love ; Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize ; and The Anatomy School.

Doughty has also presented radio programmes for the BBC on literature, and was a judge for the 2008 Man Booker Prize.

It really looked as if a change of the sort predicted by Booker T. Washington had been going on.

The rules of the Booker changed in 1971 ; previously, it had been awarded retrospectively to books published prior to the year in which the award was given.

Another speculation is that the word may have been inspired by the 1960 hit song " Gonzo " by New Orleans rhythm and blues pianist James Booker.

According to a Greg Johnson biographical note on Booker, the song title " Gonzo " comes from a character in a movie called The Pusher, which in turn may have been inspired by a 1956 Evan Hunter novel of the same title.

Numerous high schools, middle schools and elementary schools across the United States have been named after Booker T. Washington.

In March 1866, Booker and Clayton's Georgia Minstrels may have been the country's most popular troupe, and were certainly among the most critically acclaimed.

Julian Barnes ( 1946 -) is another successful living novelist, who won the 2011 Man Booker Prize for his book The Sense of an Ending, while three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Journalist Christopher Booker gave two reasons for this reaction: firstly, that " there was almost nowhere else to go ... the mini-skirts could go no higher "; and secondly, in his view, " dressed up in mini-skirts and shiny PVC macs, given such impersonal names as ' dolly birds ', girls had been transformed into throwaway plastic objects ".

Many of the selections have been extremely prescient, with at least 12 of those listed either winning or being short-listed for major literary awards such as the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize.

As owner of Raw, Flair set up a lumberjack match with Austin against the newest member of the nWo, which turned out to be Booker T. Booker had just finished a silly skit with Goldust minutes earlier, where he had been wearing a lumberjack costume and fake beard, all but destroying his " tough " momentum going into the match.

Titles published by Tindal Street Press have been recognised by many prizes and listings including three Booker nominations, and two Costa First Novel of the Year awards.

The club had been put up for sale in October 2011 by Steve Hayes after he was unable to progress with a new stadium and sport and retail development on the Booker Airfield.

In 1976, the school was repurposed as the Arts Magnet at Booker T. Washington High School, inheriting and expanding the magnet-school arts curriculum that had been in place in the Performing Arts Cluster at Skyline High School since 1970.

The title track of that album ( written by Booker T. Jones and William Bell ) became King's best-known song and has been covered by many artists ( from Cream to Homer Simpson ).

Locals described him in admiration as the " Booker T. Washington of Charlotte ".

Vardaman described the White House as " so saturated with the odor of the nigger that the rats have taken refuge in the stable ", and declared " I am just as much opposed to Booker T. Washington as a voter as I am to the cocoanut-headed, chocolate-colored typical little coon who blacks my shoes every morning.

Other works include The Trials and Tribulations of Staggerlee Booker T. Brown, One Monkey Don't Stop No Show a tragi-comic look at a middle-class black family, and A Lovesong for Miss Lydia, described by the New York Times as " a Pinteresque encounter of two elderly people.

The Booker Prize judges described this book as a " coruscating black comedy reflecting our alarm but also our fascination with America ".

Christopher Booker described wishful thinking in terms of

" The result is a more laid-back and funky groove that's soulful but potent at the same time, fusing ' 70s blaxploitation sounds, Jimmy Smith-style jazz figures, and Booker T .- influenced R & B workouts into one solid package " is the way Mark Deming described the album.

The city was the location of British writer Colin Thubron's 2002 novel, To the Last City, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and tells the story of a group of people who set off to explore the ruins of the Inca city in what has been described as a " Heart of Darkness narrative " in a " Marquezian setting ".

She described in her autobiography three subsequent long-term relationships with men: first Standish Booker, a leading bridge player, then Wash Carr ( Walter Copley Carr ) of the News of the World, and lastly Harold Lever ( Lord Lever ), a senior Labour Party politician.

In November 2006, as one of the last remaining tenants in Brick Towers, Booker left his apartment for the top unit in a three-story rental on Hawthorne Avenue in Newark's South Ward, an area described as " a drug-and gang-plagued neighborhood of boarded-up houses and empty lots.

The novel Daniel Stein, Translator by renowned Russian writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya was inspired by the life of Oswald Rufeisen .< ref > Interview at ' MAN Booker International Prize ', NDR Kultur, 26 May 2009: " The Russian author Ulitzkaja speaking about her newest book described ' Daniel Stein ' as a literature character but at the same time as an historical one: << The real Brother Daniel, whose civil name was Oswald Rufeisen, and my character Daniel Stein are not identical.