Who wrote the 1987 Booker Prize winning novel 'Moon Tiger'?
"Moon Tiger Moon Tiger is a 1987 novel by Penelope Lively which spans the time before, during and after World War II. The novel won the 1987 Booker Prize. It is written from multiple points of view and moves backward and forward through time. It begins as the story of a woman who, on her deathbed, decides to write a history of the world, and develops into a story of love, incest and the desire to be recognized as an independent free thinking woman of the time. Claudia Hampton, a 76-year-old English woman and a professional historian, is terminally ill"
"""According to Mark"", and won the 1987 prize for ""Moon Tiger"", which tells the story of a woman's tempestuous life as she lies dying in a hospital bed. As with all of Lively's fiction, ""Moon Tiger"" is marked by a close attention to the power of memory, the impact of the past upon the present, and the tensions between ""official"" and personal histories. She explored the same themes more explicitly in her nonfiction works, including ""A House Unlocked"" (2001) and ""Oleander, Jacaranda: A Childhood Perceived"" (1994), a memoir of her Egyptian childhood. Her latest nonfiction work ""Ammonites & Leaping Fish:"
"Moonchild (novel) Moonchild is a novel written by the British occultist Aleister Crowley in 1917. Its plot involves a magical war between a group of white magicians, led by Simon Iff, and a group of black magicians, over an unborn child. It was first published by Mandrake Press in 1929 and its recent edition is published by Weiser. In this work, numerous acquaintances of Crowley appear as thinly disguised fictional characters. Crowley portrays MacGregor Mathers as the primary villain, including him as a character named SRMD, using the abbreviation of Mathers' magical name. Arthur Edward Waite appears as a villain"
"ultimately undermines issues of class politics” (p. 277). Adiga's second book, ""Between the Assassinations"", was released in India in November 2008 and in the US and UK in mid-2009; twelve interlinked short stories comprise this book. His second novel and third published book, ""Last Man in Tower"", was published in the UK in 2011. His third novel, ""Selection Day"", was published on 8 September 2016. Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga (born 23 October 1974) is an Indo-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, ""The White Tiger"", won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on"
"time to complete the special effects work. The Moon and the Sun The Moon and the Sun is a novel by American writer Vonda N. McIntyre, published in 1997. The book combines two major genres: science fiction and historical romance (also known as alternate history). It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1997, beating out ""A Game of Thrones"" by George R. R. Martin. The novel was inspired by the short story (written in the form of a faux-encyclopedia article) ""The Natural History and Extinction of the People of the Sea"", also by McIntyre, which was illustrated by"
"The Moon and the Sun The Moon and the Sun is a novel by American writer Vonda N. McIntyre, published in 1997. The book combines two major genres: science fiction and historical romance (also known as alternate history). It won the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1997, beating out ""A Game of Thrones"" by George R. R. Martin. The novel was inspired by the short story (written in the form of a faux-encyclopedia article) ""The Natural History and Extinction of the People of the Sea"", also by McIntyre, which was illustrated by fellow author Ursula K. Le Guin. Set"
"A Tiger's Tale A Tiger's Tale is a 1987 American comedy-drama film starring Ann-Margret and C. Thomas Howell, written and directed by Peter Douglas, based on the novel ""Love and Other Natural Disasters"" by Allen Hannay III. Bubber Drumm is a Houston high school student. Rose Butts is an alcoholic, more than twice his age, and the mother of his girlfriend, Shirley. Bubber and Rose begin an affair after Bubber fixes Shirley up with his pal, Ransom McKnight. Bubber and Rose carry on their affair under the nose of her daughter until everything comes out in the open at a"
"although he did like certain aspects of the film: Janet Maslin of The New York Times: A Tiger's Tale A Tiger's Tale is a 1987 American comedy-drama film starring Ann-Margret and C. Thomas Howell, written and directed by Peter Douglas, based on the novel ""Love and Other Natural Disasters"" by Allen Hannay III. Bubber Drumm is a Houston high school student. Rose Butts is an alcoholic, more than twice his age, and the mother of his girlfriend, Shirley. Bubber and Rose begin an affair after Bubber fixes Shirley up with his pal, Ransom McKnight. Bubber and Rose carry on their"
"The Snow Tiger The Snow Tiger is a novel written by English author Desmond Bagley, and was first published in 1975. The sub-title of the book quotes the ski pioneer Mathias Zdarsky: ""Snow is not a wolf in sheep's clothing – it is a tiger in lamb's clothing"". This story revolves around the protagonist, Ian Ballard, who works as a mine manager. He is the grandson of Ben Ballard, owner of the Ballard Holdings Limited, a giant financial group based in London specialising in mining operations around the world. Ben had four sons including Ian's father. Ian's father and Ben"
"he has a reputation for avoiding award ceremonies. He was the first writer to be awarded the Booker Prize twice: first for ""Life & Times of Michael K"" in 1983, and again for ""Disgrace"" in 1999. Two other authors have since managed this – Peter Carey (in 1988 and 2001) and Hilary Mantel (in 2009 and 2012). ""Summertime"", named on the 2009 longlist, was an early favourite to win an unprecedented third Booker Prize for Coetzee. It subsequently made the shortlist, but lost out to bookmakers' favourite and eventual winner ""Wolf Hall"" by Hilary Mantel. Coetzee was also longlisted in"
"The Teeth of the Tiger The Teeth of the Tiger is a thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on August 11, 2003. Set in a post-9/11 world, it is the first book to feature The Campus, a covert intelligence agency created by President Jack Ryan before the end of his term as chief executive. While he does not appear in the book, his son Jack Ryan Jr., as well as his nephews Dominic and Brian Caruso, are featured as The Campus operatives. The book debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list, and would become"
"has created."" The Teeth of the Tiger The Teeth of the Tiger is a thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on August 11, 2003. Set in a post-9/11 world, it is the first book to feature The Campus, a covert intelligence agency created by President Jack Ryan before the end of his term as chief executive. While he does not appear in the book, his son Jack Ryan Jr., as well as his nephews Dominic and Brian Caruso, are featured as The Campus operatives. The book debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list, and"
"use for healing is based on information found in ""Culpeper's Herbal"" by Nicholas Culpeper. Some other sources of inspiration for the series include the works of authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Cherith Baldry, one of the people who write using the pen name Erin Hunter, said that it was hard to write the death of Feathertail at the end of ""Moonrise"" because they had to present it in a way suitable for the book's younger target audience. The series is written in an alternating third-person limited narrative. ""Midnight"" was first released in the US"
"Hilary Mantel Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, ( ; née Thompson; born 6 July 1952) is an English writer whose work includes personal memoirs, short stories, and historical fiction. She has twice been awarded the Booker Prize, the first for the 2009 novel ""Wolf Hall"", a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second for the 2012 novel ""Bring Up the Bodies"", the second instalment of the Cromwell trilogy. Mantel was the first woman to receive the award twice, following in the footsteps of J. M. Coetzee, Peter Carey and J. G."
"Moon Palace Moon Palace is a novel written by Paul Auster that was first published in 1989. The novel is set in Manhattan and the U.S. Midwest, and centers on the life of the narrator Marco Stanley Fogg and the two previous generations of his family. Marco Fogg is an orphan and his Uncle Victor his only caretaker. Fogg starts college, and nine months later moves from the dormitory into his own apartment furnished with 1492 books given to him by Uncle Victor. Uncle Victor dies before Fogg finishes college and leaves him without friends and family. Marco inherits some"
"Eloise Jarvis McGraw Eloise Jarvis McGraw (December 9, 1915 – November 30, 2000) was an American author of children's books and young adult novels. She was awarded the Newbery Honor three times in three different decades, for her novels ""Moccasin Trail"" (1952), ""The Golden Goblet"" (1962), and ""The Moorchild"" (1997). ""A Really Weird Summer"" (1977) won an Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery from the Mystery Writers of America. McGraw had a very strong interest in history, and among the many books she wrote for children are ""Greensleeves"", ""The Seventeenth Swap"", ""The Striped Ships"" and ""Mara, Daughter of the Nile""."
"for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Emma Donoghue Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel ""Room"" was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel ""Hood"" won the Stonewall Book Award. and ""Slammerkin"" (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. ""Room"" was adapted into a film of the same name, for which Donoghue wrote the screenplay which was subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969. The youngest of eight children, she is"
"Moon Rainbow Moon Rainbow () is a 1983 Soviet science fiction film directed by Vladimir Karpichev and Andrei Yermash based on the novel of the same name by Sergei Pavlov about a person gaining inexplicable extrasensory properties in the process of space exploration. In different regions of the Earth ""black traces"" are registered and in the same places unexplained atmospheric anomalies and magnetic storms take place. Specially created operational group manages to find out the connection of ""traces"" with the cosmic catastrophe on the outskirts of the Solar system, as a result of which only four survivors were left. They"
"Norman Mailer Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and liberal political activist. His novel ""The Naked and the Dead"" was published in 1948 and brought him renown. His 1968 nonfiction novel ""Armies of the Night"" won the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction as well as the National Book Award. His best-known work is widely considered to be ""The Executioner's Song"", the 1979 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. In over six decades of work, Mailer had eleven best selling books in each of the seven decades after"
"Peter S. Beagle Peter Soyer Beagle (born April 20, 1939) is an American novelist and screenwriter, especially fantasy fiction. His best-known work is ""The Last Unicorn"" (1968), a fantasy novel he wrote in his twenties, which ""Locus"" subscribers voted the number five ""All-Time Best Fantasy Novel"" in 1987. During the last twenty-five years he has won several literary awards, including a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 2011. He was named Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master by SFWA in 2018. Beagle was born in Manhattan on April 20, 1939, the son of Rebecca Soyer and Simon Beagle. Three of"
"Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book ""In Cold Blood"" (1966). Capote"
"(1982): for ""The Accidental Tourist"" (1985): for ""Breathing Lessons"" (1988): for ""Ladder of Years"" (1995): <nowiki>*</nowiki> Finalist, The Orange Prize for Fiction 1996 for ""Digging to America"" (2006): <nowiki>*</nowiki> Finalist, The Orange Prize for Fiction 2007 for ""A Spool of Blue Thread"" (2015): <nowiki>*</nowiki> Finalist, The Man Booker Prize 2015 <nowiki>*</nowiki> Finalist, The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 for Lifetime achievement: <nowiki>*</nowiki> Finalist, The Man Booker International Prize 2011 Anne Tyler Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is an American novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She has published 22 novels, the best known of which are ""Dinner"
"who was inspired by Capote's memories of Lee as a child, was played by Aubrey Dollar. Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016) was an American novelist widely known for ""To Kill a Mockingbird"", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting"
"Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga (born 23 October 1974) is an Indo-Australian writer and journalist. His debut novel, ""The White Tiger"", won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on 23 October 1974 to Dr. K. Madhava Adiga and Usha Adiga, both of whom hailed from Mangalore. His paternal grandfather was the late K. Suryanarayana Adiga, former chairman of Karnataka Bank, and a maternal great-grandfather, U. Rama Rao, a popular medical practitioner and Congress politician from Madras. Adiga grew up in Mangalore and studied at Canara High School, then at St. Aloysius College, where he"
"Tracy Kidder John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his ""The Soul of a New Machine"" (1981), about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. He has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a doctor and anthropologist, titled ""Mountains Beyond Mountains"" (2003). Kidder is considered a literary journalist because of the strong story line and personal voice in his writing. He has cited as his writing influences John McPhee, A. J. Liebling, and George Orwell. In a"
"Michael O. Fitzgerald Michael Oren Fitzgerald (born 1949) is an author, editor and entrepreneur. He and his wife, Judith Fitzgerald, have an adult son and live in Bloomington, Indiana. The first book Fitzgerald recorded and edited was ""Yellowtail: Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief"". It is the story of the late Thomas Yellowtail, one of the most honored American Indian spiritual leaders of the last century. ""Choice Magazine"" wrote, “This book becomes the personal testament of a pivotal figure in recent Crow cultural history. The book describes in exquisite detail Yellowtail’s philosophy. Fitzgerald examines the place of the Sun"
"morning before his son was awake and returned home when he was already in bed. Auster always searched for someone to replace his father. Unlike his father his mother gave Auster very much attention. In fact this may also put a different light on the title as the moon is symbolic of the female or the mother. In 2009, Audible.com produced an audio version of ""Moon Palace"", narrated by Joe Barrett, as part of its ""Modern Vanguard"" line of audiobooks. Moon Palace Moon Palace is a novel written by Paul Auster that was first published in 1989. The novel is"
"(1992). Seventeen winners of the Booker Prize have taken part: Margaret Atwood (2000), Julian Barnes (2011), A.S. Byatt (1990), Peter Carey (1988) & (2001), Kiran Desai (2006), Roddy Doyle (1993), Kazuo Ishiguro (1989), Howard Jacobson (2010), Thomas Keneally (1982), Penelope Lively (1987), Ian McEwan (1998), Yann Martel (2002), V. S. Naipaul (1971), Ben Okri (1991), Michael Ondaatje (1992), Arundhati Roy (1997), and Salman Rushdie (1981). Seven Whitbread (now called Costa) Book of the Year Award winners have taken part: Peter Ackroyd (1985), William Boyd (1981), Kazuo Ishiguro (1989), Andrea Levy (2004), David Lodge (1980), Philip Pullman (2006) and Colm Tóibín"
"Michel Tournier Michel Tournier (; 19 December 1924 − 18 January 2016) was a French writer. He won awards such as the ""Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française"" in 1967 for ""Friday, or, The Other Island"" and the Prix Goncourt for ""The Erl-King"" in 1970. His inspirations included traditional German culture, Catholicism and the philosophies of Gaston Bachelard. He resided in Choisel and was a member of the Académie Goncourt. His autobiography has been translated and published as ""The Wind Spirit"" (Beacon Press, 1988). He was on occasion in contention for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Paris"
"With pieces published in the ""Financial Times"" and ""Money"", he covered the stock market and investment, interviewing, amongst others, Donald Trump. His review of previous Booker Prize winner Peter Carey's book, ""Oscar and Lucinda"", appeared in ""The Second Circle"", an online literary review. He was subsequently hired by ""TIME"", where he remained a South Asia correspondent for three years before going freelance. During this freelance period, he wrote ""The White Tiger"". Aravind Adiga now lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Aravind Adiga's debut novel, ""The White Tiger"", won the 2008 Booker Prize. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the"
"plateau of ""Fire Snakes"" on Mercury, where before him, reconnaissance squads constantly perished. Moon Rainbow Moon Rainbow () is a 1983 Soviet science fiction film directed by Vladimir Karpichev and Andrei Yermash based on the novel of the same name by Sergei Pavlov about a person gaining inexplicable extrasensory properties in the process of space exploration. In different regions of the Earth ""black traces"" are registered and in the same places unexplained atmospheric anomalies and magnetic storms take place. Specially created operational group manages to find out the connection of ""traces"" with the cosmic catastrophe on the outskirts of the"
"the end, once she learns of Charlie's behaviour. The Snow Tiger The Snow Tiger is a novel written by English author Desmond Bagley, and was first published in 1975. The sub-title of the book quotes the ski pioneer Mathias Zdarsky: ""Snow is not a wolf in sheep's clothing – it is a tiger in lamb's clothing"". This story revolves around the protagonist, Ian Ballard, who works as a mine manager. He is the grandson of Ben Ballard, owner of the Ballard Holdings Limited, a giant financial group based in London specialising in mining operations around the world. Ben had four"
"Red Dragon (novel) Red Dragon is a novel by American author Thomas Harris, first published in 1981. The plot follows FBI profiler Will Graham, who comes out of retirement to investigate a serial killer nicknamed The Tooth Fairy, who is murdering entire families. The novel introduced the character Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer to whom Graham turns for advice. The title refers to the figure from William Blake's painting ""The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun"". The novel was adapted as a film, ""Manhunter"", in 1986, which featured Brian Cox as"