"Winston Churchill (novelist) Winston Churchill (November 10, 1871 – March 12, 1947) was an American best-selling novelist of the early 20th century. He is nowadays overshadowed, even as a writer, by the more famous British statesman of the same name, to whom he was not related. Their lives had certain parallels, but, apart from the coincidence of their names, were more or less totally separate and unconnected. Churchill was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Edward Spalding Churchill by his marriage to Emma Bell Blaine. He attended Smith Academy in Missouri and the United States Naval Academy, where"
"The Crossing (Churchill novel) The Crossing is a 1904 best-selling novel by American writer Winston Churchill. It was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1904, and includes illustrations by Sydney Adamson and Lilian Bayliss. A portion of the book first appeared in December 1903 in ""Collier's"" under the title ""The Borderland"". The last of Churchill's sweeping historical novels, the plot concerns the westward expansion of the United States, including the settlement of Kentucky. A stage adaptation written by Churchill and Louis Evan Shipman (who had also worked on the stage adaptation of ""The Crisis"") debuted in 1905 and"
"The Crisis (novel) The Crisis is an historical novel published in 1901 by the American novelist Winston Churchill. It was the best-selling book in the United States in 1901. The novel is set in the years leading up to the first battles of the American Civil War, mostly in the divided state of Missouri. It follows the fortunes of young Stephen Brice, a man with Union and abolitionist sympathies, and his involvement with a Southern family. Set in the author's home town of St. Louis, Missouri, the site of pivotal events in the western theater of the Civil War, with"
"silent film of the same name in 1916. The Crisis (novel) The Crisis is an historical novel published in 1901 by the American novelist Winston Churchill. It was the best-selling book in the United States in 1901. The novel is set in the years leading up to the first battles of the American Civil War, mostly in the divided state of Missouri. It follows the fortunes of young Stephen Brice, a man with Union and abolitionist sympathies, and his involvement with a Southern family. Set in the author's home town of St. Louis, Missouri, the site of pivotal events in"
"briefly ran on Broadway in January 1906 for eight performances. One commentator summed up the play's short run as one that ""very soon met with disaster."" The Crossing (Churchill novel) The Crossing is a 1904 best-selling novel by American writer Winston Churchill. It was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1904, and includes illustrations by Sydney Adamson and Lilian Bayliss. A portion of the book first appeared in December 1903 in ""Collier's"" under the title ""The Borderland"". The last of Churchill's sweeping historical novels, the plot concerns the westward expansion of the United States, including the settlement of"
"Frederick Crews Frederick Campbell Crews (born 20 February 1933) is an American essayist and literary critic. Professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, Crews is the author of numerous books, including ""The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James"" (1957), ""E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism"" (1962), and ""The Sins of the Fathers"" (1966), a discussion of the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He received popular attention for ""The Pooh Perplex"" (1963), a book of satirical essays parodying contemporary casebooks. Initially a proponent of psychoanalytic literary criticism, Crews later rejected psychoanalysis, becoming"
"and Christopher Columbus. Collis is remembered largely for ""While Following the Plough"" (1946) and ""Down to Earth"" (1947: as one volume, ""The Worm Forgives the Plough"", 1973). ""While Following the Plough"" was inspired by the years he chose to spend working as a farm labourer in the Land Army (which mainly consisted of women, known as ""land girls"") in Sussex and Dorset during the Second World War. He worked at J. G. Maynard's farm at Stonegate in Sussex in 1940 for a year, and then moved to Tarrant Hinton in Dorset for the rest of the war. The manuscript of"
"Harry Crews Harry Eugene Crews (June 7, 1935 – March 28, 2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Crews was born in Bacon County, Georgia, in 1935 and served in the Marines during the Korean War. He attended the University of Florida on the GI Bill, but dropped out to travel. Eventually returning to the university, Crews finally graduated and moved his wife, Sally, and son, Patrick Scott, to Jacksonville where he taught English at Lakeshore Junior High School for a year. Crews returned to Gainesville and the university to work on his master's in English Education."
"to restrain himself from gathering too much speed, from losing control, and yet, not completely in control, he crashes. Cross Country Snow ""Cross Country Snow"" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The story was first published in 1924 in Ford Madox Ford's literary magazine ""Transatlantic Review"" in Paris and republished by Boni & Liveright in Hemingway's first American volume of short stories ""In Our Time"" in 1925. The story features Hemingway's recurrent autobiographical character Nick Adams and explores the regenerative powers of nature and the joy of skiing. In 1922 Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley came to"
"In his capacity as a reviewer for ""The New York Review of Books"", Crews has written on various topics including: Crews has served on the editorial board of Cybereditions, a print on demand publishing company founded by Denis Dutton in 2000. Frederick Crews Frederick Campbell Crews (born 20 February 1933) is an American essayist and literary critic. Professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley, Crews is the author of numerous books, including ""The Tragedy of Manners: Moral Drama in the Later Novels of Henry James"" (1957), ""E. M. Forster: The Perils of Humanism"" (1962), and ""The Sins"
"number of unpublished works in the author's archive at the University of Georgia, Athens. The whereabouts of ""The Wrong Affair"" is not known. ""Assault of Memory"" is the follow-up to ""A Childhood: the Biography of a Place"" and certain parts were published in literary journals whereas some parts required a signed permission from the author to view in the archive. Harry Crews Harry Eugene Crews (June 7, 1935 – March 28, 2012) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Crews was born in Bacon County, Georgia, in 1935 and served in the Marines during the Korean War. He"
"Cross Country Snow ""Cross Country Snow"" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The story was first published in 1924 in Ford Madox Ford's literary magazine ""Transatlantic Review"" in Paris and republished by Boni & Liveright in Hemingway's first American volume of short stories ""In Our Time"" in 1925. The story features Hemingway's recurrent autobiographical character Nick Adams and explores the regenerative powers of nature and the joy of skiing. In 1922 Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley came to Paris where he worked as foreign correspondent for the ""Toronto Star"". During that period he made friends with modernist"
"in Tres Orejas, NM. His daughters are artist and author Carole Crews, and photographer Anna Bush Crews. Crews wrote and published under a number of pseudonyms, including Cerise Farallon, Willard Emory Betis, Trumbull Drachler, Tobi Macadams and Charley John Greasybear. Although he denied it, many in his literary circle believe that ""Mason Jordan Mason""—a widely published and anthologized African American poet of the 1950s and 60s, recognized by the likes of Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) and Langston Hughes—was another of Crews's carefully constructed literary personae. A long-time proponent of the work of his friend Henry Miller (a reprint of Miller's"
"Cross Country (novel) Cross Country is the 14th novel in the Alex Cross series by James Patterson. According to the ""Library Journal"" it was the second most borrowed fiction book in United States libraries in 2009. An African warlord known as the Tiger, aided by his crew of angry young men, horrifically murders author Eleanor 'Ellie' Cox and her entire family. Alex Cross and girlfriend Bree Stone go investigate, when Alex recalls Ellie had been his one time girlfriend, whom he had loved at one point. He is instantly terrified by this so much he gets no sleep, does no"
"published in the 1920s and 1930s include Brian Coffey (1905–1995), Denis Devlin (1908–1959), Thomas MacGreevy (1893–1967), Blanaid Salkeld (1880–1959), and Mary Devenport O'Neill (1879–1967). Coffey's two late long poems ""Advent"" (1975) and ""Death of Hektor"" (1982) are perhaps his most important works; the latter deals with the theme of nuclear apocalypse through motifs from Greek mythology. Of this group, Devlin is the least experimental; his friendship with Allen Tate while working at the Irish embassy in Washington is one index of the traditional tendencies of his verse. Long poems such as 'Lough Derg' (1946) and 'The Heavenly Foreigner' (written in"
"William Colt MacDonald Allan William Colt MacDonald (December 2, 1891 – March 27, 1968), who used the name William Colt MacDonald for his writing, was an American writer of westerns born in Detroit, Michigan whose work appeared both in books and on film. His many film writing credits, all for character writing, include ""Santa Fe Stampede"" (1938), ""Cowboys from Texas"" (1939),"" The Kansas Terrors"" (1939), ""New Frontier"" (1939), ""Wyoming Outlaw"" (1939), ""Three Texas Steers"" (1939), ""The Night Riders"" (1939), and ""Red River Range"" (1938). His many novels included ""Gun Country"" (1929), ""Rustler's Paradise"" (1932), ""The Crimson Quirt"" (1949), ""Action at"
"Robert Crais Robert Crais (pronounced to rhyme with 'chase') (born June 20, 1953) is an American author of detective fiction. Crais began his career writing scripts for television shows such as ""Hill Street Blues"", ""Cagney & Lacey"", ""Quincy"", ""Miami Vice"" and ""L.A. Law"". His writing is influenced by Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ernest Hemingway, Robert B. Parker and John Steinbeck. Crais has won numerous awards for his crime novels. Lee Child has cited him in interviews as one of his favourite American crime writers. The novels of Robert Crais have been published in 62 countries and are bestsellers around the"
"Coniston (novel) Coniston is a 1906 best-selling novel by American writer Winston Churchill. The plot of the historical novel concerns New Hampshire politics, where Churchill lived most of his adult life. Churchill was elected to the state legislature in 1903 and 1905, and unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor in 1906 at the same time ""Coniston"" was topping the best selling lists. The political boss character in the book, Jethro Bass, was based on New Hampshire politician Ruel Durkee. A former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, William E. Chandler, felt compelled to defend Durkee, publishing a pamphlet and writing"
"of the lower-middle classes and small farmers. Exponents of this genre include Brinsley MacNamara (1890–1963) (real name John Weldon), whose 1918 ""The Valley of the Squinting Windows"" was the first novel in this genre, and John McGahern (1934 - 2006), whose first novel, ""The Dark"" (1965), depicted child abuse in a rural community. The Catholic conscience in the modern world was examined by Brian Moore (1921–1999), who was born in Belfast but became a citizen of Canada in 1953. J. G. Farrell (1935–79) was born in Liverpool of Anglo-Irish parents, but lived intermittently in Ireland after World War II. His"
"it got a #2 at the Wall Street Journal. Cross Country (novel) Cross Country is the 14th novel in the Alex Cross series by James Patterson. According to the ""Library Journal"" it was the second most borrowed fiction book in United States libraries in 2009. An African warlord known as the Tiger, aided by his crew of angry young men, horrifically murders author Eleanor 'Ellie' Cox and her entire family. Alex Cross and girlfriend Bree Stone go investigate, when Alex recalls Ellie had been his one time girlfriend, whom he had loved at one point. He is instantly terrified by"
"lower middle class in novels like ""Kipps"" (1905) and ""The History of Mr Polly"" (1910). The major novelists writing in Britain at the start of the 20th century were an Irishman James Joyce (1882–1941) and two immigrants, American Henry James (1843–1916) and Pole Joseph Conrad (1857–1924). The modernist tradition in the novel, with its emphasis ""towards the ever more minute and analytic exposition of mental life"", begins with James and Conrad, in novels such as ""The Ambassadors"" (1903), ""The Golden Bowl"" (1907) and ""Lord Jim"" (1900). Other important early modernists were Dorothy Richardson (1873–1957), whose novel ""Pointed Roof"" (1915), is"
"published poet and essayist. His first novel to appear in book form was ""The Celebrity"" (1898). However, ""Mr. Keegan's Elopement"" had been published in 1896 as a magazine serial and was republished as an illustrated hardback book in 1903. Churchill's next novel—""Richard Carvel"" (1899)—was a phenomenal success, selling some two million copies in a nation of only 76 million people, and made him rich. His next two novels, ""The Crisis"" (1901) and ""The Crossing"" (1904), were also very successful. Churchill's early novels were historical, but his later works were set in contemporary America. He often sought to include his political"
"Cranch, John Sullivan Dwight, Convers Francis, William Henry Furness, Frederic Henry Hedge, Sylvester Judd, Theodore Parker, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, George Ripley, Thomas Treadwell Stone, Jones Very, and Walt Whitman. Early in the movement's history, the term ""Transcendentalists"" was used as a pejorative term by critics, who were suggesting their position was beyond sanity and reason. Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a novel, ""The Blithedale Romance"" (1852), satirizing the movement, and based it on his experiences at Brook Farm, a short-lived utopian community founded on transcendental principles. Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story, ""Never Bet the Devil Your Head"" (1841), in which he"
"The Crossing (McCarthy novel) The Crossing () is a novel by prize-winning American author Cormac McCarthy, published in 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf. The story is the second installment of McCarthy's ""Border Trilogy"". Like its predecessor, ""All the Pretty Horses"" (1992), ""The Crossing"" is a coming-of-age novel set on the border between the southwest United States and Mexico. The plot takes place before and during the Second World War and focuses on the life of the protagonist Billy Parham, a teenage cowboy; his family; and his younger brother Boyd. The story tells of three journeys taken from New Mexico to"
"in tears. The Crossing (McCarthy novel) The Crossing () is a novel by prize-winning American author Cormac McCarthy, published in 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf. The story is the second installment of McCarthy's ""Border Trilogy"". Like its predecessor, ""All the Pretty Horses"" (1992), ""The Crossing"" is a coming-of-age novel set on the border between the southwest United States and Mexico. The plot takes place before and during the Second World War and focuses on the life of the protagonist Billy Parham, a teenage cowboy; his family; and his younger brother Boyd. The story tells of three journeys taken from New"
"and spending their off-hours drinking in grimy pubs, to explore social issues and political controversies. However, some of the writers also associated with these two movements, like John Osborne and John Braine, did not come from the working-class. The following are some other important twentieth-century British working class novelists and novels: Robert Tressell, ""The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists"" (1914); James C. Welsh, ""The Underworld"" (1920); Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, ""This Slavery"" (1925); Ellen Wilkinson, ""Clash"" (1929); Lewis Grassic Gibbon ""A Scots Quair"" (trilogy, 1932-4); Barry Hines, ""A Kestrel for a Knave"" (1968); William McIlvanney, ""Docherty"" (1975); Pat Barker, ""Union Street"" (1982); James Kelman,"
"THE CROSSING: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution THE CROSSING: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution is a 2010 Children's history book by Jim Murphy. It describes the first couple of years of the American Revolutionary War concentrating on George Washington and his pivotal role in the conflict. A starred review of ""THE CROSSING"" by ""BookList"" found ""Murphy offers a refreshingly frank, vivid, well-researched account of a pivotal time in American history."" and ""Library Media Connection"" wrote ""This latest work is complete with rich detail and honest appraisal of the main characters. .. Murphy has written an excellent"
"disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th century and he is now considered to be among the most important 19th-century poets. His biographer Jonathan Bate states that Clare was ""the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self"". A mid-Victorian example of a working-class novel is chartist Thomas Martin Wheeler's ""Sunshine and Shadows"", which was serialized in the ""Northern Star"" 1849-50. Another chartist writer was the shoemaker poet Thomas Cooper, who, while in prison for making"
"Cross, set part of his novel ""Phineas Finn"" (1869), which parodies corrupt electoral procedures, in a fictitious Loughton. Robert Hunter, lexicographer and encyclopaedist (1823-1897) built a house in Loughton, and there compiled his massive Encyclopaedic dictionary.William Wymark Jacobs (1863–1943) lived at The Outlook, Upper Park Road before moving to Feltham House, Goldings Road. Best known as the author of the short story ""The Monkey's Paw"". Jacobs also wrote numerous sardonic short stories based in 'Claybury', a thinly veiled fictionalisation of Loughton. Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) stayed as a child at Goldings Hill Farm. Arthur Morrison (1863–1945), best known for his grim"
"partner Cora Taylor. Despite his previous success—""The Red Badge of Courage"" had gone through 14 printings in the United States and six in England—Crane was running out of money. To survive financially, he worked at a feverish pitch, writing prolifically for both the English and the American markets. He later remarked that he wrote ""The Monster"" ""under the spur of great need"", as he desperately required funds. In August of that year, Crane and Cora were injured in a carriage accident while visiting friend Harold Frederic and his mistress Kate Lyon in Homefield, Kenley; after a week of recuperation, they"
"Cameron Crowe Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American director, producer, screenwriter, journalist, author, and actor. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at ""Rolling Stone"" magazine, for which he still frequently writes. Crowe's debut screenwriting effort, ""Fast Times at Ridgemont High"", grew out of a book he wrote while posing for one year undercover as a student at Clairemont High School in San Diego, California. Later, he wrote and directed one more high school saga, ""Say Anything..."", followed by ""Singles"", a story of twentysomethings that was woven together by a soundtrack centering"
"Nixon, and the 1952 film ""Face to Face"". Stephen Crane was an American author born on November 1, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey who passed away on June 5, 1900 from tuberculosis. At the time of his death he was living in Germany. According to Encyclopædia Britannica, “He is known for being a novelist, poet, and short-story writer, best known for his novels Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) and The Red Badge of Courage (1895) and the short stories “The Open Boat,” “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” and “The Blue Hotel.” The short story opens in a"
"was sometimes overtly political, and explored marginal areas of experience using vivid vernacular language (including expletives and Scots dialect). Other notable authors to gain prominence in this period included Janice Galloway (b. 1956) with work such as ""The Trick is to Keep Breathing"" (1989) and ""Foreign Parts"" (1994); A. L. Kennedy (b. 1965) with ""Looking for the Possible Dance"" (1993) and ""So I Am Glad"" (1995); Iain Banks (1954–2013) with ""The Crow Road"" (1992) and ""Complicity"" (1993); Candia McWilliam (b. 1955) with ""Debatable land"" (1994); Frank Kuppner (b. 1951) with ""Something Very Like Murder"" (1994); and Andrew O'Hagan (b. 1968)"