Ellen Miles
Ellen Miles is an American author, the writer of the Puppy Place and Kitty Corner series of children's books. She was born in New York City, on April 8, 1957 and now lives in Vermont. Several of her stories have been translated into French and Spanish. Her website is called ellenmiles.net. She writes for scholastic books. She grew up in New York. Her books include these fictional people: Charles and Lizzie Peterson (brother and sister in Puppy Place books), their parents and little brother Adam (a.k.a. the Bean). In the Kitty Corner books: Mia Battelli, her brother, and her parents.
The Book of Dreams (Jack Vance novel)
The Book of Dreams is a science fiction book by American author Jack Vance, the fifth and last novel (1981) in the "Demon Princes" series.
Sam Weller (journalist)
Sam Weller (born January 31, 1967) is an American journalist and author, best known for being writer Ray Bradbury's authorized biographer. Weller's 2005 book, "The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury" (HarperCollins) is a full-biography while his 2010 "Listen to the Echoes, The Ray Bradbury Interviews" (Melville House Publishing) is a collection of interviews, photos, mementos, and artifacts. Weller's 2014 "Ray Bradbury: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations" (Melville House Publishing) features his last interview with Bradbury, and recounts Bradbury's influences, creative processes, and love for writing and reading.
Milton Lott
Milton Lott (1916 – 1996) was an author of western novels. He grew up in the Snake River Valley, in Idaho and attended University of California, Berkeley. While there he started writing his first published novel, "The Last Hunt". He worked on the novel while attending an English class taught by George R. Stewart, himself a well published author. Lott received a citation from the National Institute of Letters and Arts for "The Last Hunt", and was granted a Literacy Fellowship Award by Houghton Mifflin to finish the book. "The Last Hunt" was selected by the Pulitzer fiction jury for the 1955 Pulitzer Prize, but John Hohenberg convinced the Pulitzer board that William Faulkner was long overdue for the award, despite his submitted novel "A Fable" being a lesser work of his, and the board overrode the jury's selection, much to the disgust of its members. "The Last Hunt" was made into a 1957 movie.
Carina Rozenfeld
Carina Rozenfeld (born February 13, 1972 in Paris) is a French author who writes children's books in the science-fiction and fantasy genres.
Charles Dickens
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Known as ``The Pickwick Papers '') (Monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837) The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839) The Old Curiosity Shop (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, April 1840 to November 1841) Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (Weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, February to November 1841) A Christmas Carol (1843) The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (Monthly serial, January 1843 to July 1844) Dombey and Son (Monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848) David Copperfield (Monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850) Bleak House (Monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853) Hard Times: For These Times (Weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August 1854) Little Dorrit (Monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857) A Tale of Two Cities (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859) Great Expectations (Weekly serial in All the Year Round, 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861) Our Mutual Friend (Monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865) The Mystery of Edwin Drood left unfinished due to Dickens's death (Monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870)
Robert Farrar Capon
Robert Farrar Capon (October 26, 1925 – September 5, 2013) was an American Episcopal priest, author and chef. He was born in Jackson Heights, Queens in 1925. A lifelong New Yorker, for almost thirty years Capon was a full-time parish priest in Port Jefferson, New York. In 1965, he published his first book, "Bed and Board", and in 1977 he left the full-time ministry to devote more time to his writing career. He authored a total of twenty books, including "Between Noon and Three", "The Supper of the Lamb", "Genesis: The Movie", and a trilogy on Jesus’ parables: "The Parables of Grace", "The Parables of the Kingdom", and "The Parables of Judgment".
The Daily News (UK)
The "News" was founded in 1846 by Charles Dickens, who also served as the newspaper's first editor. It was conceived as a radical rival to the right-wing "Morning Chronicle". The paper was not at first a commercial success. Dickens edited 17 issues before handing over the editorship to his friend John Forster, who had more experience in journalism than Dickens. Forster ran the paper until 1870. Charles Mackay, Harriet Martineau, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, G. K. Chesterton and Ferdinando Petruccelli della Gattina were among the leading reformist writers who wrote for the paper during its heyday. In 1870, the "News" absorbed the "Morning Star". In 1876, "Daily News" and its correspondent Edwin Pears, and later Januarius MacGahan, sounded the first alarm respecting the Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria.
Megan Hart
Megan Hart is a New York Times Best-Selling American author of over thirty romantic and erotic novels. Hart became interested in writing after reading the Ray Bradbury short story "Homecoming". Moved by this work, she rewrote her own version and began creating stories. She was inspired to write professionally after reading Stephen King's "The Stand". After a long break Hart resumed writing in 1998, publishing her first book in 2002.
Amanda Petrusich
Petrusich has written for "The New York Times", Pitchfork Media and "Paste". Petrusich has been a staff writer at Pitchfork since 2003, and is a staff writer at "The New Yorker". She is the author of "Pink Moon", a book on Nick Drake's album of the same name for the 33 1/3 music series, and a 2008 book called "", which Joe Boyd described in "The Guardian" as "a terrific piece of travel writing...a tour through the roots of American rural music." Petrusich also wrote a book on record collecting called "Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records".
Diane Lockward
Diane Lockward earned her bachelor's degree from Elmira College and her master's from Montclair State University. She is the author of four full-length books of poetry: "The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement" (2016), "Temptation by Water" (2010), "What Feeds Us" (2006), recipient of the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and "Eve's Red Dress" (2003), all from Wind Publications. She is also the author of three poetry craft books, "The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics" (Terrapin Books, 2018), "The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop" (Terrapin Books, 2016) and "The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop" (rev. ed., Terrapin Books, 2016), and two chapbooks, "Eve Argues Against Perfection" (1997) and "Greatest Hits: 1997-2010 "(2012). Her poems have been published in "Prairie Schooner," "Spoon River Poetry Review", "Poet Lore", "Harvard Review, "and elsewhere. Her poems have also been featured on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and The Writer's Almanac. She is the recipient of a Poetry Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and serves as the Poet Laureate of West Caldwell, New Jersey. She founded the Poetry Festival: A Celebration of Literary Journals in 2004 and served as its director for twelve years. A former high school English teacher at Millburn High School, she has also worked as a poet-in-the-schools for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. She lives in northern New Jersey.
Silent Bob Speaks
Silent Bob Speaks: The Collected Writings of Kevin Smith is a collection of essays written by screenwriter, director, and comic book author Kevin Smith. The collection comes from sources including "Arena Magazine", "Details", "New Jersey Monthly", and "Film Comment". Topics range from polemic assaults on pop culture figures to reflections on Spider-Man and his diagnosis with morbid obesity.
Brian McConnachie
Brian McConnachie (born December 23, 1942) is an American actor, comedy writer, and children's book author. In 1982, he won an Emmy Award as part of the writing team for "SCTV Network", and in 1979 he was nominated for an Emmy as part of the writing team for "Saturday Night Live".
Mitch Finley
Mitch Finley (born December 17, 1945) is an American author who writes on religious and Catholic subjects. He has written over thirty books and has won eleven Catholic Press Awards, and an Excellence in Writing Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Smoke (Miscione novel)
Smoke is a novel by bestselling author Lisa Unger writing as Lisa Miscione. It is the fourth and final book featuring Lydia Strong.
Larry Millett
Larry Millett (born 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American journalist and author. He is the former (retired 2002) architectural critic for the "St. Paul Pioneer Press", a daily newspaper in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the author of several books on the history of architecture in Minnesota. He has also written a series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries set in the United States and Minnesota in the 1890s. The books feature the character Shadwell Rafferty, who assists Holmes in his American investigations.
University of Kansas
The school newspaper of the University of Kansas is University Daily Kansan, which placed first in the Intercollegiate Writing Competition of the prestigious William Randolph Hearst Writing Foundation competition, often called "The Pulitzers of College Journalism" in 2007. In Winter 2008, a group of students created KUpedia, a wiki about all things KU. They have received student funding for operations in 2008–09. The KU Department of English publishes the Coal City Review, an annual literary journal of prose, poetry, reviews and illustrations. The Review typically features the work of many writers, but periodically spotlights one author, as in the case of 2006 Nelson Poetry Book Award-winner Voyeur Poems by Matthew Porubsky.
Always and Forever, Lara Jean
Despite not knowing what the future holds, Lara Jean and Peter decide to stay together. Peter writes a new contract between the two, echoing the contract drafted when they were fake dating in the first novel. The book ends with Lara Jean feeling confident that her relationship with Peter will last.
Joseph M. Williams
Joseph M. Williams (18 August 1933, Cleveland, Ohio – 22 February 2008, South Haven, Michigan) was a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago where he promoted clarity in writing for many years. He authored several books on language and writing.
Billy Merrell
Billy Merrell (born January 7, 1982) is an American author and poet. He published his first book "Talking in the Dark", a poetry memoir, with Scholastic in 2003. He also co-edited "The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities" for Knopf Books for Young Readers with David Levithan. It was released in 2006 and won the 2007 Lammy in the Children's/Young Adult category.
When did the editor of The Daily News write his final book?
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Charles Dickens
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April 1870 to September 1870