Which author wrote 'A Town Like Alice'?
"Emmy Award for drama in 1981 and won a Logie Award in the ""Best Single Drama or Mini Series"" category at the 1982 awards with Morse, Brown and Jackson winning Logies for their performances. A Town Like Alice (miniseries) A Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. Produced by the Seven Network, and directed by David Stevens, it was the second major adaptation of the book. In the United States it was shown on PBS under the Masterpiece Theatre banner, a rare non-British production to be so aired. It"
"The novel was adapted to film in 1956 as ""A Town Like Alice"". It starred Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch, directed by Jack Lee. This film was known as ""Rape of Malaya"" in U.S. cinemas, and by various other titles in non-English-speaking countries. It was shown in Japan under the title ""Malay Death March: A Town Like Alice""（""Maree shi no koshin: Arisu no yo na machi""「マレー死の行進:アリスのような町」）. In 1981 it was adapted into a popular television miniseries called ""A Town Like Alice"", starring Helen Morse and Bryan Brown (with Gordon Jackson as Noel Strachan). It was broadcast internationally, in the United"
"was driven through the palms of his hands. His comrades managed to smuggle food to him and he survived his ordeal. The other two men crucified at the same time did not survive. After the Surrender of Japan, Edwards was released and was discharged from the army on 4 December 1945. British novelist Nevil Shute met Ringer Edwards in 1948 at a station in Queensland. Some of Edwards' experiences, including the crucifixion, became the basis for the character ""Joe Harman"" in ""A Town Like Alice"". Unlike Edwards' experiences, the entire story takes place in Malaya. The other main character, ""Jean"
"in creating Mildred, ""Childress may have been influenced by Langston Hughes's Jesse B. Simple... a gregarious, beer-loving, bar-hopping Harlemite who shared his adventures in the white world and his homely philosophies."" Childress, Alice. ""Like One of the Family"". Beacon Press, 1986. Like One of the Family Like One of the Family is a novel by Alice Childress. It was originally published in 1956 by Independence Publishers in Brooklyn, New York. It was re-published by Beacon Press in Boston in 1986. Each chapter, 62 in all, is told from the perspective of Mildred, a domestic worker in New York City, to"
"Like One of the Family Like One of the Family is a novel by Alice Childress. It was originally published in 1956 by Independence Publishers in Brooklyn, New York. It was re-published by Beacon Press in Boston in 1986. Each chapter, 62 in all, is told from the perspective of Mildred, a domestic worker in New York City, to her friend Marge, also a domestic worker. The chapters originally appeared with the title ""Conversation from Life"" in the black Marxist newspaper ""Freedom"" (founded by Paul Robeson), and later were published in the ""Baltimore Afro-American"". Literary scholar Trudier Harris notes that,"
"1959 and in 2000 as a two-part miniseries; and ""No Highway"" in 1951. ""A Town Like Alice"" was adapted in 1956 and serialized for Australian television in 1981, and was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1997 starring Jason Connery, Becky Hindley, Bernard Hepton and Virginia McKenna. Shute's 1952 novel ""The Far Country"" was filmed for television as six one-hour episodes in 1972, and as a two-part miniseries in 1987. Vintage Books reprinted all 23 of his books in 2009. Shute's final work was published more than 40 years after his death. ""The Seafarers"" was first drafted in 1946–47, subsequently"
"in Valley City, North Dakota, who is now retired. The couple has five grown children now located in various parts of America. When interviewed by Lola Sparks in Purple Pens, Kelly identified the following writers as having influenced her: In her author profile on the e-Harlequin site, Kelly says her three favorite fictional works have remained constant through the years, although their rankings tend to shift: ""War and Peace"" by Leo Tolstoy, ""The Lawrenceville Stories"" by Owen Johnson, and ""A Town Like Alice"" by Nevil Shute. Her favorite historical works are ""One Vast Winter Count"", ""On the Border with Mackenzie"","
"Black Alice (novel) Black Alice is a novel by Thomas M. Disch and John Sladek (writing as Thom Demijohn), published in 1968. During the 1960s, in Virginia, while the blacks fight for their civil rights, a young white girl is kidnapped in Baltimore. Little Alice Raleigh, eleven years and blonde like corn, and heiress of an immense fortune, is held for a ransom of a million dollars. Her kidnappers, trying to make her invisible to the police officers and the federal agents searching for her, manage to brown her skin and her hair. They sequester her under an assumed name"
"who was known for his portraits of Carl Sandburg and Albert Einstein. New Adventures of Alice New Adventures of Alice is a novel by John Rae, written in 1917 and published by P. F. Volland of Chicago. It is, according to Carolyn Sigler, one of the more important ""Alice imitations"", or novels inspired by Lewis Carroll's ""Alice"" books. The book opens with a little girl, Betsy, wishing for another Alice book. She passes into a dream, and finds in the attic a book which begins with Alice reading Mother Goose rhymes to her kittens, leading to further adventures. The book"
"Springs, Northern Territory is the Nevil Shute Memorial Library. In the Readers' List of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th century, ""A Town Like Alice"" came in at number 17, ""Trustee from the Toolroom"" at 27, and ""On the Beach"" at 56. Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels,"
"Best British Actress for ""Reach for the Sky"" (1956). For her performance in ""A Town Like Alice"", she won the 1982 Logie Award (Australian television) for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Telemovie. She died in London two-and-a-half months before her 67th birthday. Dorothy Alison Dorothy Alison (4 April 1925 – 17 January 1992) was an Australian stage, film and television actress. She was born in the New South Wales mining city of Broken Hill and educated at Sydney Girls High School. She moved to London in 1949 to further her career. Aside from her numerous mostly-supporting film roles,"
"Alice Adams (novel) Alice Adams is a 1921 novel by Booth Tarkington that received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel. It was adapted as a film in 1923 by Rowland V. Lee and, more famously, in 1935 by George Stevens. The narrative centers on the character of a young woman (the eponymous Alice Adams) who aspires to climb the social ladder and win the affections of a wealthy young man named Arthur Russell. The story is set in a lower-middle-class household in an unnamed town in the Midwest shortly after World War I. The novel begins with Virgil Adams"
"is a Gothic romance. Miles Franklin (""My Brilliant Career"") and Jeannie Gunn (""We of the Never Never"") wrote of lives of European pioneers in the Australian bush from a female perspective. Albert Facey wrote of the experiences of the Goldfields and of Gallipoli (""A Fortunate Life""). Ruth Park wrote of the sectarian divisions of life in impoverished 1940s inner city Sydney (""The Harp in the South""). The experience of Australian PoWs in the Pacific War is recounted by Nevil Shute in ""A Town Like Alice"" and in the autobiography of Sir Edward Dunlop. Alan Moorehead was an Australian war correspondent"
"Still Alice (novel) Still Alice is a 2007 novel by Lisa Genova, set in Boston. The novel is about a woman who suffers early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Alice Howland, a 50-year-old woman, is a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned linguistics expert. She is married to an equally successful husband, and they have three grown children. The disease takes hold swiftly, and it changes Alice’s relationship with her family and the world. It was Genova's first novel. Genova self-published the book in 2007 with iUniverse. Beverly Beckham of ""The Boston Globe"" wrote of it, ""After I read ""Still Alice"""
"for the 1956 film version of Nevil Shute's novel ""A Town Like Alice."" Mason’s observations while living in Hong Kong inspired him to write his best-known book, ""The World of Suzie Wong"" (1957), a tale of an artist’s surprisingly tender romance with a Hong Kong prostitute. It became a bestseller and added a somewhat controversial expression, “Suzie Wong” (a seductive East Asian woman), to the English language. It was adapted into a 1958 Broadway play starring William Shatner and France Nuyen and the 1960 film ""The World of Suzie Wong"", starring William Holden and Nancy Kwan. It was Kwan’s first"
"Nevil Shute Nevil Shute Norway (17 January 189912 January 1960) was an English novelist and aeronautical engineer who spent his later years in Australia. He used his full name in his engineering career and Nevil Shute as his pen name to protect his engineering career from any potential negative publicity in connection with his novels, which included ""On the Beach"" and ""A Town Like Alice"". Born in Somerset Road, Ealing, Middlesex, he was educated at the Dragon School, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford; he graduated from Oxford University in 1922 with a third-class degree in engineering science. Shute's father,"
"town like Alice""; also Jean's help in rescuing an injured stockman, which breaks down many local barriers. The story closes a few years later, with an aged Noel Strachan visiting Willstown to see what has been done with the money he has given Jean to invest. He reveals that the money which Jean inherited was originally made in an Australian gold rush, and he is satisfied to see the money returning to the site of its making. Jean and Joe name their second son Noel, and ask Strachan to be his godfather. They invite Noel (Strachan) to make his home"
"Alice Walker Alice Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist. She wrote the novel ""The Color Purple"" (1982), for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote the novels ""Meridian"" (1976) and ""The Third Life of Grange Copeland"" (1970), among other works. An avowed feminist, Walker coined the term ""womanist"" to mean ""A black feminist or feminist of color"" in 1983. Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker was born in Eatonton, Georgia, a rural farming town, to Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Tallulah"
"Like That"", she describes a young girl who refuses an artist's proposal and later regrets her decision. Specifically, the main character, Miss Juliet Delany, remembers, Reports are conflicting about whether or not Lambert ever married. David Silcox and Harold Town wrote that she never married, while Roy MacGregor wrote that she married a man and had two daughters with him. She died in Marysville, Washington in 1981 at the age of 95. Alice Elinor Lambert Alice Elinor Lambert (1886–1981) was an American romance writer. Lambert was born in Corvallis, Oregon in 1886. Her father, Charles Edward Lambert, was born in"
"spend without being traced by government offices. In the end, Alice is freed and returns to her former life, after denying knowledge of her father while still disguised as a black child and seeing him punished for his misdeed. Black Alice (novel) Black Alice is a novel by Thomas M. Disch and John Sladek (writing as Thom Demijohn), published in 1968. During the 1960s, in Virginia, while the blacks fight for their civil rights, a young white girl is kidnapped in Baltimore. Little Alice Raleigh, eleven years and blonde like corn, and heiress of an immense fortune, is held for"
"Alice Brown (writer) Alice Brown (December 5, 1857 – June 21, 1948) was an American novelist, poet and playwright, best known as a writer of local color stories. She also contributed a chapter to the collaborative novel, ""The Whole Family"" (1908). She was born in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire and graduated from Robinson Seminary in Exeter in 1876. She later worked as a school teacher for five years, but moved to Boston to write full-time in 1884. She first worked at the Christian Register and then, starting in 1885, the ""Youth's Companion"". She was a prolific author for many years,"
"The Westminster Alice The Westminster Alice is the name of a collection of vignettes written by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) in 1902 and published by the Westminster Gazette of London. It is a political parody of Lewis Carroll's two books, ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and ""Through the Looking-Glass"". The book features 48 drawings after the originals by John Tenniel which were drawn by Francis Carruthers Gould. It is critical of the politics of the day, of which Alice tries to make sense. A number of notable British politicians are identified in the book. Joseph Chamberlain is the Queen of Hearts,"
"Virginia McKenna Virginia Anne McKenna, OBE (born 7 June 1931) is a British stage and screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films ""A Town Like Alice"" (1958), ""Carve Her Name with Pride"" (1958), ""Born Free"" (1966), and ""Ring of Bright Water"" (1969) and for her long collaboration with husband Bill Travers. McKenna was born in Marylebone to a theatrical family and was educated at Heron's Ghyll School, a former independent boarding school near the market town of Horsham in Sussex. She spent six years in South Africa before returning to the School at the"
"small amount, and was later pardoned by the French state. She further scandalized the public by marrying, and then later divorcing, the man she shot. In 1941, she was one of several major suspects in the well-publicized murder of her former lover and friend, Lord Erroll, in Kenya. After a long history of numerous failed suicide attempts, she died of a self-inflicted gunshot in September 1941. Her personality has been referenced both in fiction and non-fiction, most notably in the book ""White Mischief"" and its film adaptation, where she was portrayed by Sarah Miles. Alice was born in Buffalo, Erie"
"Dorothy Alison Dorothy Alison (4 April 1925 – 17 January 1992) was an Australian stage, film and television actress. She was born in the New South Wales mining city of Broken Hill and educated at Sydney Girls High School. She moved to London in 1949 to further her career. Aside from her numerous mostly-supporting film roles, she appeared in several television programmes and miniseries, including a prominent role in ""A Town Like Alice"", ""The Adventures of Robin Hood"" as the Duchess Constance and other TV shows. She was nominated for two BAFTA awards: Most Promising Newcomer for ""Mandy"" (1952) and"
"Sister Alice Sister Alice (Tor Books, ) is a science fiction novel by author Robert Reed, first published in 2003. It was a finalist for the 2004 John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The five sections of the novel originally appeared in a different form in ""Asimov's Science Fiction"": The story is about a child growing up in a cold planet Earth around 10 million years from now. He travels from being a young boy playing war with his friends to a semi-god still playing war, but with a universe at stake. Godlike powers were withdrawn from most humans after a"
"Alice Childress Alice Childress (October 12, 1916 – August 14, 1994) was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as ""the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades."" Childress described her work as trying to portray the have-nots in a have society, saying: ""My writing attempts to interpret the 'ordinary' because they are not ordinary. Each human is uniquely different. Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvellously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne."" Childress also became involved in"
"the closing of Pagewood Studios. Leslie Norman was keen to produce. Then in the mid 1950s director Jack Lee and Joe Janni had a big hit with the Australian-themed ""A Town Like Alice"" (1956), starring Peter Finch and written by Lipscomb. Rank put Lee and Janni under contract for two years and had Finch under contract. The three were reunited for the movie. Peter Finch had made ""The Shiralee"" (1957) in Australia immediately before. Jack Lee later said: I made a mistake choosing ""Robbery Under Arms"", a complicated Victorian novel with masses of plots and subplots and too much moralising."
"centered around a therapist and a girl patient who was adopted; the therapist begins to think the girl might be her own daughter, whom she had given up at birth. (Homes was writing this novel and it was in production before her own birth mother tracked her down in 1992.) Homes' 1996 novel, ""The End of Alice,"" is narrated mostly by a convicted child molester and murderer imprisoned in the West Block of Sing Sing. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham described this work as dark and treacherous as ice on a highway. It establishes A. M. Homes as one"
"Helen Morse Helen Morse (born 24 January 1947) is an English-born Australian actress who has appeared in films, on television and on stage. She won the AFI (AACTA) Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for the 1976 film ""Caddie"", and starred in the 1981 miniseries ""A Town Like Alice"". Her other film appearances include ""Picnic at Hanging Rock"" (1975), ""Agatha"" (1979), ""Far East"" (1982) and ""The Eye of the Storm"" (2011). Morse was born in Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England. She was the oldest of four children; her parents were a doctor and nurse. She attended school"
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre. Its narrative course, structure, characters, and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature,"
"by the title ""Yūrei tō"" (幽霊塔; Ghost Tower) in 1901, and it was adapted by Edogawa Rampo(江戸川乱歩) in 1937-1938. Translations of her novels and newspaper serials appeared throughout Europe, particularly in France, Holland and Switzerland. Alice Muriel Williamson Alice Muriel Williamson (8 October 1858 – 24 September 1933), who published chiefly under names ""C. N. and A. M. Williamson"" and ""Mrs. C. N. Williamson,"" was an American-English author. She was born 8 October 1858 to parents Marcus and Jane (Thomas) King in Cleveland, Ohio, where her father was co-founder of the Ohio State and Union [Law] College. In 1890 she"
"Alice McGill Alice McGill is an American children's writer and professional storyteller. In many of her books have African American protagonists or deal with African American issues. ""Molly Bannaky"", the story of a young British girl in 17th century America who became the grandmother of Benjamin Banneker, the first black man to publish an almanac, was an ALA Notable Book and winner of the 2000 IRA Picture Book Award and the 2000 Jane Addams Award. McGill was born in the small rural town of Scotland Neck, North Carolina, where she attended a four-room school. She was strongly influenced by her"