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4 days ago · Elizabeth Taylor, the author, critic and chair of the National Book Critics' Circle biography committee, discusses their 2021 shortlist for the title of the best biography—including a revelatory new book about the life of Malcolm X, a group biography of artists in the 1960s, and a book built from a cache of letters written in Japan's shogun era.
- Artists' Lives
Both Van Gogh brothers played a central role in the history...
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“In selecting this volume of Reiner Stach’s richly detailed...
- Ancient Biographies
“Agricola is a tribute to his father-in-law and it’s really...
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“Scientific biographies most often focus on Great Famous...
- New Biography
by Jonathan Israel. Spinoza: Life and Legacy is a new...
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May 13, 2024 · Jane Austen (born December 16, 1775, Steventon, Hampshire, England—died July 18, 1817, Winchester, Hampshire) was an English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. She published four novels during her lifetime: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice ...
- What did Jane Austen accomplish?English novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) wrote about unremarkable people in unremarkable situations of everyday life, and yet she shaped such mater...
- What was Jane Austen’s family like?Jane Austen was the seventh of eight children. Her closest companion throughout her life was her elder sister, Cassandra. Their father was a schola...
- What did Jane Austen write?Jane Austen is known for six novels: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), and Persuasion a...
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6 days ago · His final novel, Farewell Summer (2006), was a sequel to Dandelion Wine. He adapted 59 of his short stories for the television series The Ray Bradbury Theatre (1985–92). Bradbury was often considered a science fiction author, but he said that his only science fiction book was Fahrenheit 451.
- Who is Ray Bradbury?Ray Bradbury is an American author known for his highly imaginative short stories and novels that blend a poetic style, nostalgia for childhood, so...
- Which novel is considered Ray Bradbury's greatest work?Fahrenheit 451 (1953) is regarded as Ray Bradbury’s greatest work. The novel is about a future society where books are forbidden, and it has been a...
- What was Ray Bradbury's last novel?Ray Bradbury's final novel was Farewell Summer (2006), a sequel to one of his most well-known works, the autobiographical novel Dandelion Wine (1957).
- Was Ray Bradbury awarded a Pulitzer Prize?In 2007 the Pulitzer Prize Board awarded Ray Bradbury a Special Citation for his distinguished career.
May 13, 2024 · Alice Walker. Alice Walker, 1992. Walker moved to California, where she wrote her most popular novel, The Color Purple (1982). An epistolary novel, it depicts the growing up and self-realization of an African American woman between 1909 and 1947 in a town in rural Georgia. Its main character, Celie, survives rape and abuse at the hands of her ...
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3 days ago · 1980–1991. Maus, [a] often published as Maus: A Survivor's Tale, is a graphic novel by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman, serialized from 1980 to 1991. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. The work employs postmodern techniques, and represents Jews as mice and other ...
- Art Spiegelman
- 1991
3 days ago · Charles John Huffam Dickens ( / ˈdɪkɪnz /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
