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The novelist Sebastian Faulks, who also wrote an introduction to an edition of these three novels, calls Green " unique ": " No fiction has ever thrilled me as the great moments in Living and Loving ".< David Lodge calls him " an exceptionally gifted and truly original writer ".
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Of these there are surely few that would be more rewarding discoveries than Verner Von Heidenstam, the Swedish poet and novelist who received the award in 1916 and whose centennial was celebrated two years ago.
The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.
The novelist who has been badly baptized in psychoanalysis often gives us the impression that since all men must have an Oedipus complex all men must have the same faces.
It may be that in this comment he has broken from the conventional pattern more violently than in any other regard, for the treatment in his books is far removed from even the genial irony of Ellen Glasgow, who was the only important novelist before him to challenge the conventional picture of planter society.
In a small way this is illustrated by the nineteenth-century novelist who argued for the powerful influence of literature as a teacher of society and who illustrated this with the way a girl learned to meet her lover, how to behave, how to think about this new experience, how to exercise restraint.
Mr. White, who is only a competent novelist, is a brilliant reporter.
Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.
Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.
Charlotte Brontë (; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855 ) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood, whose novels are English literature standards.
Raymond Chandler, who debuted as a novelist with The Big Sleep in 1939, soon became the most famous author of the hardboiled school.
For example, the Securing Your Home Forum was moderated by survival retreat expert Joel Skousen, and the Inventory and Barter Items Forum was moderated by the survivalist novelist James Wesley Rawles, who later went on to be a survivalist blogger and preparedness guru.
Five years later, Verdi reworked his " Libera Me " section of the Rossini Requiem and made it a part of his Requiem Mass, honoring the famous novelist and poet Alessandro Manzoni, who had died in 1873.
A leading champion of Melville's claims as a great American poet was the poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren, who issued a selection of Melville's poetry prefaced by an admiring and acute critical essay.
Scott's attention had been drawn to Gratz's character by novelist Washington Irving, who was a close friend of the Gratz family.
* John-James Ford ( born 1972 ), Canadian foreign service officer who gained notability as poet, short story writer and novelist ; winner of 2006 Ottawa Book Award
Jan Karon is an American writer and novelist, who has written for both children and adults.
This film first teamed him with the actor-director Maximilian Schell, who acted out a character named, and based on, " Butcher Of Riga " Eduard Roschmann, and for whom Voight would appear in 1976's End of the Game, a psychological thriller based on a story by Swiss novelist and playwright, Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Richard S. " Kinky " Friedman ( born November 1, 1944 ) is an American Texas Country singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for Texas Monthly who styles himself in the mold of popular American satirists Will Rogers and Mark Twain.
Her contemporaries included artist Romaine Brooks, who painted others in her circle ; writers Colette, Djuna Barnes, social host Gertrude Stein, and novelist Radclyffe Hall.
He defended Salman Rushdie, the novelist who was subject to a fatwā requiring Rushdie's execution by Ayatollah Khomeini, and took a strongly pro-interventionist position against Serbia during its conflict with Croatia and Bosnia, supporting NATO forces whilst citing defence of civilian populations in the latter countries.
Coulton, an expert on Mediaeval monasteries, included her theories in his work, Five Centuries of Religion, Volume One ( 1923 ), as did the novelist John Buchan, who included it into his Witch Wood ( 1927 ).
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The Nobel Prize winning novelist Patrick White named his 1955 novel The Tree of Man also after a line in " On Wenlock Edge " and Arthur C. Clarke's first novel, Against the Fall of Night, is taken from a work in Housman's More Poems.
Winer is also the grandnephew of German novelist Arno Schmidt and a relative of Hedy Lamarr.
Frank Thompson was also a friend and confidant of Iris Murdoch, the philosopher and novelist.
Although mainly a novelist, he also wrote several plays, the most famous being Yellow Sands.
American 20th-century novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote: " f all I have ever seen or learned, that book seems to me the noblest, the wisest, and the most powerful expression of man ’ s life upon this earth — and also the highest flower of poetry, eloquence, and truth.
The novelist George Eliot also included couplets throughout her writings.
American novelist James Fennimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans and other novels reflect republican and egalitarian ideals present alike in Rousseau, Thomas Paine, and also in English Romantic primitivism.
Brando also adopted Petra Brando-Corval ( born 1972 ), the daughter of his assistant Caroline Barrett and novelist James Clavell.
Besides being a statesman and political scientist, Machiavelli also translated classical works, and was a dramaturge ( Clizia, Mandragola ), a poet ( Sonetti, Canzoni, Ottave, Canti carnascialeschi ), and a novelist ( Belfagor arcidiavolo ).
" British novelist Malcolm Lowry, painter Oskar Kokoschka, orchestra director Wilhelm Furtwängler, and filmmaker Fritz Lang were also fans of Spengler's work.
King also wrote the nonfiction book, Faithful, with novelist and fellow Red Sox fanatic Stewart O ' Nan.
Postmodern novelist Thomas Pynchon, who was also influenced by Beat fiction, experimented since the 1960s with the surrealist idea of startling juxtapositions ; commenting on the " necessity of managing this procedure with some degree of care and skill ", he added that " any old combination of details will not do.
He also hoped to become a historical novelist or a dramatist, and in the same year he wrote his first essay, Dell ' amor patrio di Dante (" On Dante's Patriotic Love "), which was published in 1837.
" He also used a realist technique which French novelist Marcel Proust later named " retrospective illumination ", whereby a character's past is revealed long after she or he first appears.
In addition to being a novelist, Burgess was also a linguist and he used this background to depict his characters as speaking a form of Russian-influenced English.
Amantine ( also " Amandine ") Lucile Aurore Dupin (), later Baroness () Dudevant ( 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876 ), best known by her pseudonym George Sand (), was a French novelist and memoirist.
He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journalism, propaganda and film.
The work of independent artists, such as American novelist John Steinbeck's novels Of Mice and Men ( 1937 ) and The Grapes of Wrath ( 1939 ), and the music of folk singer Woody Guthrie, was also influenced by the crises of the Dust Bowl and the Depression.
While she is best known for her work as a novelist, she is also a poet, having published fifteen books of poetry to date.
He was also a second cousin of novelist Nancy Richler.
Late authors Shel Silverstein and William Styron also lived on the Vineyard, as did writer, journalist and teacher John Hersey, poet and novelist Dorothy West and artist Thomas Hart Benton Various writers have been inspired by the island — including the mystery writer Philip Craig who set several novels on the island.
French-Canadian literature also began to attract a great deal of attention globally, with Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet winning the Prix Goncourt.
Writers John Ciardi, James Merrill, John Malcolm Brinnin, and Richard Wilbur reputedly played together regularly in Key West, Florida, with novelist John Hersey also sometimes sitting in.
The novelist Christopher Isherwood also addresses the interpretation of the linga as a sex symbol.
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