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Richard Bachman is a pen name (as well as a fictional character) of ..., (born September 21, 1947) an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, crime, science-fiction, and fantasy novels. He is called the "King of Horror“. His debut, Carrie, was published in 1974, and was followed by 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Stand and The Dead Zone. Different Seasons, a collection of four novellas, was his first major departure from the horror genre. Several of his works have won the Bram Stoker and August Derleth Awards.
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Stephen King
... (December 10, 1830 - died May 15, 1886) American lyric poet who lived in seclusion and commanded a singular brilliance of style and integrity of vision. "Because I could not stop for Death" has gained the most acclaim and is her most famous poem. It is notable for its contemplative approach to mortality.
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Emily Dickinson
... (October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), and also The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.
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Sylvia Plath
... (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020) = John le Carré was an English-Irish author, best known for his espionage novels. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a 1974 spy novel. It follows the endeavours of taciturn, aging spymaster George Smiley to uncover a Soviet mole in the British Secret Intelligence Service.
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David John Moore Cornwell
... (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.
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Lyman Frank Baum
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name ..., was an American writer, humorist, essayist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".
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Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
... (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known for her six novels, which critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Her plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security. Her works: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Emma (1816), Abbey and Persuasion (1817).
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Jane Austen
... - Poet and Author Known for His Work “Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, ” and “Love Is a Dog from Hell”. August 16, 1920 (Leo) Andernach, Germany. He was a prolific novelist, short story writer and poet who gained a cult status for his work that brought out his experience, emotion and imagination on paper.
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Charles Bukowski
... (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune. The novel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about espionage set during the American Revolutionary War. He also created American sea stories. His best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period, written between 1823 and 1841, known as the Leatherstocking Tales, which introduced the iconic American frontier scout, Natty Bumppo.
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James Fenimore Cooper
... (September 20, 1948) an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and short story writer. He is the author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which were adapted into the Emmy Award-winning series ... (2011–2019). A Song of Ice and Fire depicts a violent world dominated by political realism. Moral ambiguity pervades the books and their stories continually raise questions concerning loyalty, pride, and the morality of violence.
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George Raymond Richard Martin
Game of Thrones
..., pseudonym of John Griffith Chaney, (born January 12 - November 22, 1916), American novelist and short-story writer whose best-known works—among them The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906)—depict elemental struggles for survival. During the 20th century he was one of the most extensively translated of American authors.
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Jack London
... (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Works: Mrs Dalloway; A Room of One's Own is an extended essay, in which she uses metaphors to explore social injustices and comments on women's lack of free expression.
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Adeline Virginia Woolf
... (April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, poet, and civil rights activist. Her series of seven autobiographies focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
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Maya Angelou
... (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses. Kidnapped is set around real 18th-century Scottish events, notably the "Appin Murder", which occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27, 1832 - January 14, 1898), better known by the pseudonym ... was a 19th-century British writer. Charles, a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford, is best known today for his children's books ..., its sequel Through the Looking-Glass and his poem The Hunting of the Snark.
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Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903, he was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. He is widely considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, and his works continue to be widely read and studied today. He is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel, ..., which depicts a totalitarian society in which the government controls every aspect of citizens’ lives, including their thoughts and beliefs.
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George Orwell (pen name), "1984"
... (born November 8, 1900, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.—died August 16, 1949, Atlanta) American author of the enormously popular novel ... (1936). The novel earned her a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, and it was the source of the classic film of the same name released in 1939.
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Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
... (July 30, 1818 - December 19, 1848) English novelist and poet who produced but one novel, Wuthering Heights (1847), a highly imaginative work of passion and hate set on the Yorkshire moors. She was perhaps the greatest of the three sisters, but the record of her life is extremely meagre, for she was silent and reserved and left no correspondence of interest.
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Emily Bronte
Charlotte and Ann Brontë
... (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, best known for his postwar ... series of spy novels. He worked for Britain's Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War. He drew from his wartime service and his career as a journalist for much of the background, detail, and depth of his ... novels. Fleming wrote his first ... novel, Casino Royale, in 1952, at age 44.
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Ian Lancaster Fleming, James Bond
... (born 31 July 1965), better known by her pen name ..., is a British author and philanthropist. She wrote ..., a seven-volume fantasy series published from 1997 to 2007. The series has sold over 600 million copies, been translated into 84 languages, and spawned a global media franchise including films and video games. The Casual Vacancy (2012) was her first novel for adults. She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series.
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Joanne Rowling, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), known by her pen name ..., was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator. Her works are known for their realism, psychological insight, sense of place and detailed depiction of the countryside. Silas Marner, in full Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, published in 1861. The story’s title character is a friendless weaver (ткач) who cares only for his cache of gold. He is redeemed through his love for Eppie, a baby girl, whom he discovers shortly after he is robbed and rears as his own child.
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George Eliot
... (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist parents she grew up among many well-known intellectuals of the day, including Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
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Louisa May Alcott
... (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet, best known for his debut novel ... (1954). This play describes a group of boys stranded on a tropical island descending into a lawless and increasingly wild existence before being rescued. In 1980, he was awarded the Booker Prize for Rites of Passage, the first novel in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth. He was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Sir William Gerald Golding, Lord of the Flies
... (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which included his iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and public image brought him admiration from later generations. He was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... is a heart-touching story of an experienced old angler, Santiago, who is dubbed as an unfortunate man on the Terrace where he used to stay when returned his fishing trips.
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Ernest Miller Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea
... (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the toy ..., as well as for children's poetry. He was primarily a playwright before the huge success of the book overshadowed all his previous work. He served in both World Wars, as a lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in the First World War and as a captain in the Home Guard in the Second World War.
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Alan Alexander Milne,
the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh