Who was the author of the 1938 novel 'Scoop'?
"Scoop (novel) Scoop is a 1938 novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh. It is a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondents. William Boot, a young man who lives in genteel poverty, far from the iniquities of London, contributes nature notes to Lord Copper's ""Daily Beast"", a national daily newspaper. He is dragooned into becoming a foreign correspondent, when the editors mistake him for John Courtney Boot, a fashionable novelist and a remote cousin. He is sent to Ishmaelia, a fictional state in East Africa, to report on the crisis there. Lord Copper believes it ""a very promising little"
"age, a more appropriate model for Boot may be William Beach Thomas who, according to Peter Stothard, ""was a quietly successful countryside columnist and literary gent who became a calamitous Daily Mail war correspondent"" in World War I. Yet another suggested candidate as the model for Boot was the ""Daily Mail""'s gardening correspondent for 50 years, Percy Izzard (1877-1968). Tom Stoppard has sometimes gone by the pseudonym William Boot when working as a journalist in the early 1960s. William Boot William Boot is a fictional journalist who is the protagonist in the 1938 Evelyn Waugh comic novel ""Scoop."" Boot is"
"William Boot William Boot is a fictional journalist who is the protagonist in the 1938 Evelyn Waugh comic novel ""Scoop."" Boot is the young author of a regular column on country life for a London newspaper named the ""Daily Beast"". His affected style is typified in the notorious sentence ""Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole"". After the ""Daily Beast's"" publisher mistakes him for the ""real"" war correspondent Henry Boot, William is sent abroad as a foreign correspondent to the fictional African state of Ishmaelia which is on the brink of a civil war. Although he is completely"
"Scoop (2006 film) Scoop is a 2006 romantic crime comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Ian McShane and Allen himself. The film was released in the United States by Focus Features on July 28, 2006. ""Scoop"" received generally lukewarm reviews from critics and has been listed by several as one of Allen's weakest efforts. Following the memorial service for investigative reporter Joe Strombel (McShane), Strombel's spirit finds himself on the barge of death with several others, including a young woman who believes she was poisoned by her employer, Peter Lyman (Jackman). The"
"and philistinism...""Scoop"" endures because it is a novel of pitiless realism; the mirror of satire held up to catch the Caliban of the press corps, as no other narrative has ever done save Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's ""The Front Page""."" ""Scoop"" was included in ""The Observer""s list of the 100 greatest novels of all time. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked ""Scoop"" No. 75 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. ""Scoop"" was made into a 1972 BBC serial featuring Harry Worth. In 1987, William Boyd adapted the novel into a two-hour TV"
"The Spike (novel) The Spike is a 1980 spy thriller novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss (New York: Crown Publishers, 1980). Drawing on de Borchgrave's experience as a jet-setting ""Newsweek"" journalist and conservative Washington insider, it tells the story of a radical '60s journalist, Bob Hockney, who stumbles upon a Soviet plot for global supremacy by 1985. When he tries to expose the web of blackmail, sex and espionage, he's hamstrung by his editors' liberal media bias. In the news world, to ""spike"" a story means to cancel its publication. De Borchgrave and Moss envision a scenario in"
"Scoop (TV series) Scoop is a children's TV series first broadcast by the BBC on the CBBC channel from January 2009 to December 2013 and is written by Julian Dutton, Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain, Martin Hughes & Rory Clark. It is currently on its third season. The show stars Shaun Williamson as Digby Digworth, an ambitious but inept journalist for a fictional local newspaper, ""The Pilbury Post"". Each episode centres on Digby's failure to get a scoop, ending up causing mayhem and disaster instead. In each of these he is accompanied by Hacker, a dog. The show also stars"
"surprising had it been Mrs Stitch herself."" Mrs. Stitch Mrs. Algernon Stitch, more familiarly known as Julia Stitch, is a character created by Evelyn Waugh, best known for her role in the novel ""Scoop"". The character was inspired by Waugh's friendship with the well-connected socialite, Lady Diana Cooper. Mrs. Stitch appears as a ""fixer"", a well-connected member of British, and especially London society, who can make things happen for people. This activity is known to all as ""The Stitch Service"". In ""Scoop"", she is asked to find employment for a novelist by the name of Boot, and arranges for him"
"Mrs. Stitch Mrs. Algernon Stitch, more familiarly known as Julia Stitch, is a character created by Evelyn Waugh, best known for her role in the novel ""Scoop"". The character was inspired by Waugh's friendship with the well-connected socialite, Lady Diana Cooper. Mrs. Stitch appears as a ""fixer"", a well-connected member of British, and especially London society, who can make things happen for people. This activity is known to all as ""The Stitch Service"". In ""Scoop"", she is asked to find employment for a novelist by the name of Boot, and arranges for him to be sent as a journalist to"
"Scoops (magazine) Scoops was a weekly British science fiction magazine published by Pearsons in tabloid format in 1934. The first issue appeared in February 1934. Twenty issues appeared. The editor was Haydn Dimmock. ""Scoops"" was aimed at children, and it was not until several issues had appeared that Dimmock discovered there was an adult audience for science fiction. He attempted to change the magazine's focus to more mature material, but Pearson's cancelled the magazine because of poor sales. The last issue was dated 23 June 1934. The failure of the magazine contributed to the belief that Britain could not support"
"near Stinchcombe in Gloucestershire. The couple had seven children, one of whom died in infancy. Their first child, a daughter, Maria Teresa, was born on 9 March 1938 and a son, Auberon Alexander Waugh, on 17 November 1939. Between these events, ""Scoop"" was published in May 1938 to wide critical acclaim. In August 1938, Waugh made a three-month trip to Mexico with Laura, after which he wrote ""Robbery Under Law"", based on his experiences there. In the book he spelled out clearly his conservative credo; he later described the book as dealing ""little with travel and much with political questions""."
"protagonist of the satirical novel ""Scoop"". Deedes himself said he ""spent part of my life brushing aside the charge,"" but admitted ""that my inexperience and naivety as a reporter in Africa might have contributed a few bricks to the building of Boot."" The two had reported together in 1936, trying to cover the Second Italo-Abyssinian War; Deedes arrived in Addis Ababa aged 22 with almost 600 pounds of luggage. Berhanu Kebele, Ethiopian ambassador to London, pointed out that Deedes's sharp journalistic instincts ensured Italian excesses were kept in the public eye. Barring the question of age, a more appropriate model"
"fiction in the early 1930s' ""Media History"", 13 (1), 2007, pp. 43 – 60. The Scoop and Behind the Screen The Scoop and Behind the Screen are both collaborative detective serials written by members of the Detection Club which were broadcast weekly by their authors on the BBC National Programme in 1930 and 1931 with the scripts then being published in ""The Listener"" within a week after broadcast. The two serials were first published in book form in the UK by Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1983 and in the US by Harper & Row in 1984. The UK edition retailed"
"grossed $10,525,717 in the U.S. and $39,212,510 worldwide. The film had a $4 million budget, not including prints and advertising expense. Scoop (2006 film) Scoop is a 2006 romantic crime comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Ian McShane and Allen himself. The film was released in the United States by Focus Features on July 28, 2006. ""Scoop"" received generally lukewarm reviews from critics and has been listed by several as one of Allen's weakest efforts. Following the memorial service for investigative reporter Joe Strombel (McShane), Strombel's spirit finds himself on the barge"
"The Scoop and Behind the Screen The Scoop and Behind the Screen are both collaborative detective serials written by members of the Detection Club which were broadcast weekly by their authors on the BBC National Programme in 1930 and 1931 with the scripts then being published in ""The Listener"" within a week after broadcast. The two serials were first published in book form in the UK by Victor Gollancz Ltd in 1983 and in the US by Harper & Row in 1984. The UK edition retailed at £6.95. Julian Symons, then President of the club (1983), explains in his introduction:"
"Obert Skye Obert Skye is the pseudonym of Robert Farrell Smith. He is a bestselling American children's writer known for the ""Leven Thumps"" series, the ""Pillage"" trilogy,[1] and ""The Creature from My Closet"" series. He is also the author of ""Witherwood Reform School"" and ""Beyond Foo"". Skye is known for novels that emphasize the power of imagination and importance of discovering the impossible in the mundane. Even the Obert Skye pen name, which is used to further ""research"" on the world of Foo in Leven Thumps and the existence of dragons in Pillage, is “all about imagination” and “thinking bigger"
"Spy Hook Spy Hook is a 1988 spy novel by Len Deighton. It is the first novel in the second of three trilogies about Bernard Samson, a middle-aged and somewhat jaded intelligence officer working for the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). ""Spy Hook"" is part of the ""Hook, Line and Sinker"" trilogy, being succeeded by ""Spy Line"" and ""Spy Sinker"". This trilogy is preceded by the ""Game, Set and Match"" trilogy and followed by the final ""Faith, Hope and Charity"" trilogy. Deighton's novel ""Winter"" (1987) is a prequel to the nine novels, covering the years 1900-1945 and providing the backstory"
"to Evelyn Waugh's novel Scoop. It tells the story of a downtrodden sub-editor, Jeremy Underwood, who notices two figures dressed in burqas outside the offices of the tabloid newspaper where he works. When he mentions this to his colleagues, their paranoia and hunger for a story take over. The Beast's journalists come to believe they are the target of an imminent terrorist attack and events quickly escalate out of control. The novel deals with themes such as the rapaciousness of the tabloids, the decline of print journalism and Islamophobia in the British media. Several critics have pointed out that as"
"Shock (novel) Shock is a novel written by Robin Cook in 2001. It is a medical science fiction woven around a fertility clinic that uses unethical means to get rich. The novel is about two friends ""Deborah Cochrane"" and ""Joanna Meissner"", both of whom are shown equally as protagonists. Joanna dumps her boyfriend Carlton Williams and finds herself in need of money to complete her studies. Her friend Deborah shows her a newspaper article about ""Wingate Clinic"" that is offering $45,000 for people willing to donate their eggs for infertile patients. The two friends decide to take the offer and"
"presentation to the local college, Digby faces his long-time reporting rival, Selina Sharp. Will he fall for her tricks once again? Guest Stars: Mina Anwar as Selina Sharp Scoop (TV series) Scoop is a children's TV series first broadcast by the BBC on the CBBC channel from January 2009 to December 2013 and is written by Julian Dutton, Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain, Martin Hughes & Rory Clark. It is currently on its third season. The show stars Shaun Williamson as Digby Digworth, an ambitious but inept journalist for a fictional local newspaper, ""The Pilbury Post"". Each episode centres on"
"Schuster/Shadow Mountain Publishing ""The Creature from My Closet"" Series—Macmillan Publishing ""Pillage"" Trilogy—Shadow Mountain Publishing ""Beyond Foo""—Shadow Mountain Publishing ""Witherwood Reform School"" (Macmillan Publishing) ""Geeked Up""—Macmillan Publishing ""Mutant Bunny Island""—Harper Collins ""Wizard For Hire""–Shadow Mountain Publishing Obert Skye Obert Skye is the pseudonym of Robert Farrell Smith. He is a bestselling American children's writer known for the ""Leven Thumps"" series, the ""Pillage"" trilogy,[1] and ""The Creature from My Closet"" series. He is also the author of ""Witherwood Reform School"" and ""Beyond Foo"". Skye is known for novels that emphasize the power of imagination and importance of discovering the impossible in the"
"Mortal Stakes Mortal Stakes is the third Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker, first published in 1975. The story centers on the Boston private eye being hired by the Red Sox to find out if their lead pitcher, Marty Rabb, is on the take. The investigation quickly takes him into a deeper, and more dangerous, blackmail plot involving pimps, a high class madam, and a vicious shylock. Marty Rabb's wife, Linda Rabb, lived a secret life as a prostitute and made a pornographic film that is the backbone of the blackmail issue. Spenser must deal with the shylock, Frank Doerr,"
"Mystery (novel) Mystery is a 1990 novel by American author Peter Straub, and is the second installment in Straub's loosely connected ""Blue Rose Trilogy"". The novel falls into the genre of crime fiction, and was preceded by ""Koko"" and followed by ""The Throat"". The book was published by Dutton, won the 1993 Bram Stoker Award and was a 1994 WFA nominee In Mill Walk, a caribbean island mostly inhabited by wealthy American and German expats, a little boy named Tom Pasmore views an article about a woman named Jeanine Thielman who was murdered and then dumped in a lake. A"
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"(1936), which Rose Macaulay dismissed as a ""fascist tract"" on account of its pro-Italian tone. A better-known account is his novel ""Scoop"" (1938) in which the protagonist, William Boot, is loosely based on Deedes. Among Waugh's growing circle of friends were Diana Guinness and Bryan Guinness (dedicatees of ""Vile Bodies""), Lady Diana Cooper and her husband Duff Cooper, Nancy Mitford who was originally a friend of Evelyn Gardner's, and the Lygon sisters. Waugh had known Hugh Patrick Lygon at Oxford; now he was introduced to the girls and their country house, Madresfield Court, which became the closest that he had"
"a science fiction magazine, and it was not until 1937, with ""Tales of Wonder"", that another attempt was made. Scoops (magazine) Scoops was a weekly British science fiction magazine published by Pearsons in tabloid format in 1934. The first issue appeared in February 1934. Twenty issues appeared. The editor was Haydn Dimmock. ""Scoops"" was aimed at children, and it was not until several issues had appeared that Dimmock discovered there was an adult audience for science fiction. He attempted to change the magazine's focus to more mature material, but Pearson's cancelled the magazine because of poor sales. The last issue"
"had to hide in the English countryside, after anonymous threats were made in response to a ""Newsweek"" article he wrote that named some of the terrorists behind the 1972 Munich massacre. The authors' 1983 follow-up, ""Monimbo"", envisioned Miami race rioters as the pawns of Nicaraguan and Cuban communists. The Spike (novel) The Spike is a 1980 spy thriller novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss (New York: Crown Publishers, 1980). Drawing on de Borchgrave's experience as a jet-setting ""Newsweek"" journalist and conservative Washington insider, it tells the story of a radical '60s journalist, Bob Hockney, who stumbles upon a"
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"and Peter McCoy; and a daughter, Amanda McCoy. He died in Beverly Hills, CA of a heart attack. ""All-Star Detective Stories"""": ""Black Mask"": ""Detective-Dragnet Magazine"": ""Detective Action Stories"": ""Man Stories"": ""Nickel Detective"": ""Popular Fiction"": Horace McCoy Horace McCoy (April 14, 1897 – December 15, 1955) was an American writer whose hardboiled novels took place during the Great Depression. His best-known novel is ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"" (1935), which was made into a movie of the same name in 1969, fourteen years after McCoy's death. McCoy was born in Pegram, Tennessee. During World War I McCoy served in the United"
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"Howard Spring Howard Spring (10 February 1889 – 3 May 1965) was a Welsh author and journalist who wrote in English. He began his writing career as a journalist but from 1934 produced a series of best-selling novels for adults and children. The most successful was ""Fame Is the Spur"" (1940), which was later adapted into ""Fame is the Spur"" starring Michael Redgrave and, later still the BBC TV series ""Fame is the Spur"" (1982) starring Tim Pigott-Smith and David Hayman. Howard Spring was born in Cardiff, the son of a poor jobbing gardener. Spring was forced to leave school"