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Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.
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Sturley's allusion probably explains why Greville took out the patent in the names of Best and Wells, for Sir Anthony Ashley described Best as `` a scrivener within Temple Bar, that deals in many matters for my L. Essex '' through Sir Gelly Merrick, especially in `` causes that he would not be known of ''.
Best known for his play Ubu Roi ( 1896 ), which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theatre of the 1920s and 1930s, Jarry wrote in a variety of genres and styles.
Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations.
A similar prize known as The Best of the Booker was awarded in 2008 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prize.
Published in 1985, it is also known variously as Chapterhouse Dune, Chapter House Dune, and Chapter House: Dune, and rose to # 2 on The New York Times Best Seller list.
Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.
* Charlotte Best, Australian actress, known for her role as Annie Campbell on Home and Away
Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense and a trilogy of Neil Young documentary / concert movies.
He was forced to sell drugs out of a car wash he worked at by a local drug gang known as the " Best Friends ".
The current electoral system based on the Westminster system, was devised by the British and incorporates what is commonly known as " Best losers ", which maintains ethnic representation of MPs in the legislative assembly.
Busby's team also became associated with the liberalisation of Western society during the 1960s ; George Best, known as the " fifth Beatle " for his iconic haircut, was the first footballer to significantly develop an off-the-field media profile.
Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 ( 1953 ) and for the science fiction and horror stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles ( 1950 ) and The Illustrated Man ( 1951 ), Bradbury was one of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers.
He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich ( that gave him an Academy Award for Best Director nomination ) and the 2002 film Adaptation, and as the co-writer / director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are.
The most known examples of which being Aquila ( TV series ) ( 1997 – 1998 ) based on the novel by Andrew Norriss and Jeopardy ( BBC TV series ) ( 2002 – 2004 ) which won the 2002 BAFTA for Best Children's Drama.
Best known for his empiricism and rational skepticism, advanced doctrines of naturalism and material causes.
Best known as the director of Dracula ( 1931 ), the cult classic Freaks ( 1932 ), and classic silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney, Browning directed many movies in a wide range of genres.
* August 20 – Dudley D. Watkins, Scottish illustrator for D. C. Thomson & Co. Best known for Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Dandy, The Beano, and The Topper.
* July 1 – John Ford ( musician ), Best known for penning Part of the Union whilst in Strawbs
Best known for its sewing machines, it was renamed Singer Manufacturing Company in 1865, then The Singer Company in 1963.
Best known for his " trilogy on modernity and its discontents "— L ' Avventura ( 1960 ), La Notte ( 1961 ), and Eclipse ( 1962 )— Antonioni " redefined the concept of narrative cinema " and challenged traditional approaches to storytelling, realism, drama, and the world at large.
The first AS / 400 systems ( known by the development code names Silverlake and Olympic ) were delivered in 1988 under the tag line " Best of Both Worlds " and the product line has been refreshed continually since then.
Best known for his work with Fairport Convention, Mattacks has also worked both as a session musician, and as a performance artist.
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Also, it has been suggested that the source of all or part of the dust may not be the same as that for visual or radar meteorites ( Best, 1960 ), and the same distribution would not be expected.
Best Bet for Tonight: That darlin' dazzler from Paree, Genevieve, opening in the Empire room.
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Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.
The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement in art direction on a film.
The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.
The first Best Actor awarded was Emil Jannings, for his performances in The Last Command and The Way of All Flesh.
The 1939 film Beau Geste is the only movie that features as many as four Academy Award winners for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Susan Hayward, Broderick Crawford ) prior to any of the actors receiving the Best Actor Award.
Category: Hugo Award for Best Novella winning works
Category: Silver Bear for Best Director recipients
Cuarón shared an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay with co-writer and brother Carlos Cuarón.
* 2005: Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film ( Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, nominated )
* 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
* 1969 – At the U. S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
A Fire Upon the Deep shared the 1993 Hugo Award for Best Novel with Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis.
The book was nominated for the 1992 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 1993 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and the 1993 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
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Kosiński's novels have appeared on The New York Times Best Seller list, and have been translated into over 30 languages, with total sales estimated at 70 million in 1991.
* Modern Library 100 Best Novels – English-language novels of the 20th century
Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big ( 1924 ), Show Boat ( 1926 ; made into the celebrated 1927 musical ), Cimarron ( 1929 ; made into the 1931 film which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), and Giant ( 1952 ; made into the 1956 Hollywood movie ).
* Swan Song ( 1987 )-Co-winner of the 1987 Bram Stoker Award and nominated for the 1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel ; the first of his novels to appear on the New York Times Bestseller List
The Dragons of Autumn Twilight, the first novel in the series, reached the top of The New York Times Best Seller list list, encouraging TSR to a launch a long series of paperback novels based on the various official settings for D & D.
Critically acclaimed, The Sandman is one of the few graphic novels ever to be on the New York Times Best Seller list, along with Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns.
April appears in the novels Final Frontier and Best Destiny by Diane Carey as the captain of the Enterprise.
The Hugo Award for Best Novel is given each year for science fiction or fantasy novels published in English or translated into English during the previous calendar year.
* NRCs Best Dutch novels
All 18 novels featuring Drizzt by Salvatore have made the New York Times Best Seller list, starting with The Crystal Shard.
* NRCs Best Dutch novels
Martin's series of novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which earned him the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film.
The Nebula Award for Best Novel is given each year for science fiction or fantasy novels published in English or translated into English and released in the United States or on the internet during the previous calendar year.
The Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor was given each year for editors of magazines, novels, anthologies, or other works related to science fiction or fantasy, published in English.
In 2005, Time chose it as one of the 10 Best graphic novels ever written.
Elmer Kelton, mostly noted for his novels The Good Old Boys and The Time it Never Rained, was voted by the Western Writers of America as the " Best Western Writer of All Time ".
Whilst Gardner's Bond novels received a mixed reaction from the critics, they were popular and a number appeared in the The New York Times Best Seller list, bringing the author commercial success.
In 1998, A High Wind in Jamaica was included as number 71 in the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, a list of the best English-language novels of the 20th century.
Dec., 2007: Guardian Angel, Choke Hold and The Best of the Destroyer make Bookgasm's top ten list of the best crime novels of 2007.
Though it is not uncommon for fantasy novels to be ranked on The New York Times Best Seller list, to date the only fantasy novelists whose works have debuted at number one on the list are Robert Jordan in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, and 2009, George R. R. Martin in 2005, and 2011, Neil Gaiman in 2005, Terry Goodkind in 2006, and Patrick Rothfuss in 2011.
Known for his novels Red Riding Quartet ( 1999-2002 ), GB84 ( 2004 ), and The Damned Utd ( 2006 ), Peace was named one of the Best of Young British Novelists by Granta in their 2003 list.
Her earliest novels were literary fiction ; after the publication of The Suspect ( 1985 ), her first mystery novel and winner of the 1986 Edgar Award for Best Novel, she concentrated exclusively on the genre.
Dr. Selar has appeared in more TNG novels than television episodes, and she and Elizabeth Shelby, who appeared in the two-part episode " The Best of Both Worlds " are major characters in the Star Trek: New Frontier series.
After one of her novels placed on the New York Times Best Seller List for the first time, McNaught asked her publisher to change the covers of all future releases.
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