"Tsaritsyn and Voronezh, as well as Rostov-na-Donu. Much of the Upper Don region, in 1918, had defected to the Bolsheviks, but as a result of the Red Terror, in 1919, rose up in arms against them, in what was known as the ""Veshenskaya Uprising."" The main leaders were Pavel Nazarovich Kudinov and Kharlampii Yermakov. They joined forces with the Don Army centered in Novocherkassk, which was commanded by Ataman Afrikan Bogayevsky. These events form an important part of Mikhail Sholokhov's epic, And Quiet Flows the Don. Indeed, for a long time, Kudinov and Yermakov, who appear in the novel, were"
"voice. In 2009, the American Jennifer Higdon composed the choral piece ""On the Death of the Righteous"", based on Donne's sermons. Still more recent is the Russian minimalist Anton Batagov's "" I Fear No More, selected songs and meditations of John Donne"" (2015). John Donne John Donne ( ; 22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and"
"Joyce creates parallels with Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. William Faulkner's ""The Sound and the Fury"" (1929) is another significant modernist novel, that uses the stream of consciousness technique. Novelists who are not considered modernists include: Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) who was also a successful poet; H. G. Wells (1866–1946); John Galsworthy (1867–1933), (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1932) whose works include a sequence of novels, collectively called ""The Forsyte Saga"" (1906–21); Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) author of ""The Old Wives' Tale"" (1908); G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936); and E.M. Forster's (1879–1970), though Forster's work is ""frequently regarded as containing both modernist and Victorian"
"includes painter Delacroix, poet Lamartine and the boastful, profligate Alexandre Dumas. Charles becomes a fixture in the bustling Hugo household on Notre-Dame-des-Champs."" ""The Globe and Mail"" had this to say about Ms. Humphreys's most recent novel: """"The Evening Chorus"", when all is said and done, is a formally conventional but for the most part satisfying yarn; a quiet novel about a calamitous event whose most trenchant passages show the cast of Humphreys’s poet’s eye."" ""Quill & Quire"" says of ""The River"" (2017): ""Comparing The River to Helen Humphreys’s critically acclaimed bestseller The Frozen Thames, her 2007 collection of vignettes about"
"J. Sherwin, David K. Shipler, David Shribman, and Justin Harvey Smith. Other authors and media personalities include ABC Senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper, novelist and founding editor of ""The Believer"" Heidi Julavits, ""Dean of rock critics"" Robert Christgau, National Book Award winners Louise Erdrich and Phil Klay, novelist/screenwriter Budd Schulberg, political analyst Dinesh D'Souza, radio talk show host Laura Ingraham, commentator Mort Kondracke, and journalist James Panero. Norman Maclean, a former professor at the University of Chicago and author of ""A River Runs Through It and Other Stories"", graduated from Dartmouth in 1924. Theodor Geisel, better known as children's"
"Alison Frankel, a senior legal writer at Thomson-Reuters; they have two children and live in Sea Cliff, NY. Dan Fagin Dan Fagin (born February 1, 1963) is an American journalist who specializes in environmental science. He won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for his best-selling book """". ""Toms River"" also won the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, the National Academies Communication Award, and the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award of the Society of Environmental Journalists, among other literary prizes. Fagin was born in Oklahoma City and attended high school at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School,"
"The River Flows (novel) The River Flows is a semi-autobiographical novel by the British writer F. L. Lucas. His first novel, it was published in 1926. The title is taken from a poem by T'ao Ch'ien, translated by Arthur Waley, three lines from which form the novel's epigraph. Written in the form of a journal with inserted letters, the story begins in early 1913, with the narrator, David Halliday (a Cambridge Classics graduate, aged 22, working on a fellowship thesis on Theocritus) holidaying happily alone in the Lake District. In Yorkshire, on his way back to Cambridge, he visits student-friend"
"Don Carpenter Don Carpenter (March 16, 1931 – July 28, 1995) was an American writer, best known as the author of ""Hard Rain Falling"". He wrote numerous novels, novellas, short stories and screenplays over the course of a 22-year career that took him from a childhood in Berkeley, California and the Pacific Northwest to the corridors of power and ego in Hollywood. A close observer of human frailty, his writing depicted marginal characters like pool sharks, prisoners and drug dealers, as well as movie moguls and struggling actors. Although lauded by critics and fellow writers alike, Carpenter's novels and stories"
"until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, for which he became the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Two of his works, ""A Fable"" (1954) and his last novel ""The Reivers"" (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel ""The Sound and the Fury"" sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were ""As I Lay Dying"" (1930) and ""Light in August"" (1932). ""Absalom, Absalom!"" (1936) appears on similar lists. Born William Cuthbert Falkner in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the first"
"George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including ""Adam Bede"" (1859), ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), ""Silas Marner"" (1861), ""Romola"" (1862–63), ""Middlemarch"" (1871–72), and ""Daniel Deronda"" (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime, she wanted to escape the stereotype"
"storytelling and the biting edge of his satire in works such as ""An Béal Bocht"". Samuel Beckett, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, is one of the great figures in 20th-century world literature. Perhaps best known for his plays, he also wrote works of fiction, including ""Watt"" (1953) and his trilogy ""Molloy"" (1951), ""Malone Dies"" (1956) and ""The Unnamable"" (1960), all three of which were first written, and published, in French. The big house novel prospered into the 20th century, and Aidan Higgins' (1927–2015) first novel ""Langrishe, Go Down"" (1966) is an experimental example of the ""genre""."
"literary work ever written. In 2015, writers from outside the UK voted it first among all British novels ""by a landslide"". The various film and television adaptations of Eliot's books have re-introduced her to the wider reading public. George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including ""Adam Bede"" (1859), ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), ""Silas Marner"" (1861), ""Romola"" (1862–63), ""Middlemarch"" (1871–72),"
"example, Lord Byron (1788–1824) engaged in a famous feud with Robert Southey, who was then England's Poet Laureate. Byron wrote a mocking 17-verse dedication to his epic poem ""Don Juan"" in which he savagely pilloried Southey as a dull, reactionary ""warbler"" who had abandoned his political principles for favor and financial reward. Throughout time, book dedications were used to make political statements or to condemn war and inequality. Author Toni Morrison dedicated ""Beloved"", her 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a fugitive slave who killed her daughter, to ""Sixty Million and more."" Furthermore, book dedications reflect the tastes and mores of"
"Maxwell Gray Mary Gleed Tuttiett (11 December 1846 – 21 September 1923), better known by the pen name Maxwell Gray, was an English novelist and poet best known for her 1886 novel ""The Silence of Dean Maitland"". Tuttiett was born and brought up in Newport, Isle of Wight, the daughter of the surgeon Frank Bampfylde Tuttiett and his wife Elizabeth née Gleed. Largely self-educated, in early adulthood she visited London, various other parts of England, and Yverdon-les-Bains in Switzerland; but for the majority of her working life as a writer suffered constant debilitating illness from asthma and rheumatism —reports described"
"Don Paterson Donald ""Don"" Paterson, OBE, FRSL, FRSE (born 1963) is a Scottish poet, writer and musician. Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1963. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem ""A Private Bottling"" won the Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition in 1993. He was included on the list of 20 poets chosen for the Poetry Society's 'New Generation Poets' promotion in 1994. In 2002 he was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award. His first collection of poetry, ""Nil Nil"" (1993), won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. ""God's Gift"
"began as early as 1928, though her most famous work, ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", was not published until 1966. South Africa's Alan Paton's famous ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" dates from 1948. Doris Lessing from Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, was a dominant presence in the English literary scene, frequently publishing from 1950 on throughout the 20th century. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007. Salman Rushdie is another post Second World War writer from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" 1989, was inspired"
"Don DeLillo Donald Richard ""Don"" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, playwright and essayist. His works have covered subjects as diverse as television, nuclear war, sports, the complexities of language, performance art, the Cold War, mathematics, the advent of the digital age, politics, economics, and global terrorism. Initially he was a well-regarded cult writer; however, the publication in 1985 of ""White Noise"" brought him widespread recognition, and won him the National Book Award for fiction. It was followed in 1988 by ""Libra"", a bestseller. DeLillo has twice been a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist (for ""Mao II"""
"era, including Sir Francis Bacon. Wilson also wrote some verse. His ""Upon Mr. J. Donne and his Poems"" has been considered one of the better elegies on the poet and was printed in the first collection of John Donne's poems as a tribute. Arthur Wilson (writer) Arthur Wilson (baptised 14 December 1595 – autumn 1652) was a 17th-century English playwright, historian and poet. Born a commoner, he worked as a gentleman-in-waiting and steward to several powerful Parliamentarians in the period up to the English Civil War. He is remembered as a minor playwright, who wrote several plays for London's Blackfriars"
"Davies of Hereford - Charles Best - William Shakespeare - John Davies - John Donne - Ben Jonson - Lord Herbert of Cherbury - William Drummond of Hawthornden - Mary Wroth - Robert Herrick - George Herbert - John Milton - Charles Cotton - Thomas Gray - Charlotte Turner Smith - William Blake - Robert Burns - William Wordsworth - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Robert Southey - Mary F. Johnson - Leigh Hunt - George Gordon, Lord Byron - Percy Bysshe Shelley - John Clare - John Keats - Hartley Coleridge - Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Elizabeth Barrett Browning -"
"in part by the life of Muhammad. V. S. Naipaul (born 1932), born in Trinidad, was another immigrant, who wrote among other things ""A Bend in the River"" (1979). Naipaul won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many other Commonwealth writers have achieved an international reputation for works in English, including Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, and playwright Wole Soyinka. Soyinka won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, as did South African novelist Nadine Gordimer in 1995. Other South African writers in English are novelist J.M. Coetzee (Nobel Prize 2003) and playwright Athol Fugard. Kenya's most internationally renowned author is Ngũgĩ"
"(2007), where the main focus is on their rebellious daughter Pegge. English treatments include Garry O'Connor's ""Death's Duel: a novel of John Donne"" (2015), which deals with the poet as a young man. He also plays a significant role in Christie Dickason's ""The Noble Assassin"" (2012), a novel based on the life of Donne's patron and (the author claims) his lover, Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford. Finally there is Bryan Crockett's ""Love's Alchemy: a John Donne Mystery"" (2015), in which the poet, blackmailed into service in Robert Cecil's network of spies, attempts to avert political disaster and at the same"
"with his second wife, Rachel. Dobbs has raised money for his neighbour, who is paralysed as a result of a rugby injury. He walked from his home town in Wylye to his old school Richard Hale. He completed this on the 27 March 2015. Michael Dobbs is a distant relative of the US non-fiction author with the same name. The two are sometimes confused. Francis Urquhart Novels Tom Goodfellowe Novels Winston Churchill Novels Harry Jones Thrillers Non-series novels Michael Dobbs Michael Dobbs, Baron Dobbs (born 14 November 1948) is a British Conservative politician and best-selling author, most notably for his"
"stream running through the Parsonage House of his childhood, in Basingstoke. The Loddon rises west of Basingstoke and is fed by springs in the town; it joins the Kennet at Reading. Thomas Warton Thomas Warton (9 January 1728 – 21 May 1790) was an English literary historian, critic, and poet. From 1785 to 1790 he was the Poet Laureate of England. He is sometimes called ""Thomas Warton the younger"" to distinguish him from his father ""Thomas Warton the elder"". His most famous poem remains ""The Pleasures of Melancholy"", a representative work of the Graveyard poets. Warton was born in Basingstoke,"
"John Donne John Donne ( ; 22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday"
"Donne did not publish these poems, although they circulated widely in manuscript form. One such, a previously unknown manuscript that is believed to be one of the largest contemporary collections of Donne's work (among that of others), was found at Melford Hall in November 2018. Some have speculated that Donne's numerous illnesses, financial strain, and the deaths of his friends all contributed to the development of a more somber and pious tone in his later poems. The change can be clearly seen in """" (1611), a poem that Donne wrote in memory of Elizabeth Drury, daughter of his patron, Sir"
"Lawrence Dorr Lawrence Dorr (1925 – December 7, 2014) was the nom de plume of Janos Shoemyen, a Hungarian-American author born in Budapest, Hungary. He escaped from his homeland during the Soviet occupation and endured an itinerant life in immediate post-war Europe. He tried first to emigrate to the UK and then the USA where he finally settled in Gainesville, Florida. He authored a number of short story collections including ""A Slow Soft River, A Bearer of Divine Revelation,"" and ""A Slight Momentary Affliction,"" which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Three of his short stories appeared in"
"New Brunswick, the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-language Literary Arts is named in his honour. Nowlan is one of Canada's most popular 20th-century poets, and his appearance in the anthology ""Staying Alive"" (2002) has helped to spread his popularity beyond Canada. In the 1970s, Nowlan met and became close friends with theatre director Walter Learning. The two collaborated on a number of plays, including ""A Gift to Last"", ""Frankenstein"", ""The Dollar Woman"", and ""The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca."" Nowlan's Fredericton home is now the residence of the Graduate Student Association at the University of New Brunswick. Dubbed"
"winners are ""Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha"" by Roddy Doyle and ""The Gathering"" by Anne Enright. John Banville's ""The Sea"" won in 2005, though it proved a controversial choice. Banville has also won other international awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and has been mentioned as the next Irish contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. There has been a rise in the amount of popular fiction being published in a range of genres, including romantic novels and detective stories set in New York. The 21st-century has also brought an increased emphasis"
"and one published in England, included ""Anniversaries"" (1979); ""The Prinzhorn Collection"" (1982); ""Landslides"": selected poems, 1975-1985 (1986); ""K. in Love"" (1987); ""Little Bird"" (1991); ""Forests of the Medieval World"" (1993); ""Someone Has Stayed in Stockholm"" (1994, published in England); and ""For the Living and the Dead"" (1996, a translation from the Swedish). Coles died on November 29, 2017 at the age of ninety. Don Coles Donald L. Coles (April 12, 1927 – November 29, 2017) was a Canadian poet and novelist. He won the 1993 Governor General's Award for English poetry for his collection ""Forests of the Medieval World"" and"
"Don Coles Donald L. Coles (April 12, 1927 – November 29, 2017) was a Canadian poet and novelist. He won the 1993 Governor General's Award for English poetry for his collection ""Forests of the Medieval World"" and the Trillium Book Award in 2000 for his collection ""Kurgan"". He was born on April 12, 1927, in Woodstock, Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto and received a B.A in modern History in 1949, and an M.A in English Literature in 1952. He then attended the University of Cambridge, where he eventually earned a second M.A in Canadian Literature. Coles' writing began"
"Anne Douglas, Countess of Morton Anne Douglas, Countess of Morton (c. 1610 – 15 December 1654), born Anne Villiers, was an English noblewoman, famed for her beauty, bravery and loyalty to the throne. The first half of the 17th-century closet drama ""Cicilia and Clorinda"" was dedicated to her. Anne was the daughter of Sir Edward Villiers (c. 1574 – 7 September 1626) and his wife, Barbara St. John, a daughter of Sir John St. John. She was a half-niece of the Duke of Buckingham, who was one of her father's younger half-brothers. Anne Villiers's nieces included Elizabeth Villiers, mistress to"
"York, 1926 (reprinted by Macaulay Co., New York, 1926). The River Flows (novel) The River Flows is a semi-autobiographical novel by the British writer F. L. Lucas. His first novel, it was published in 1926. The title is taken from a poem by T'ao Ch'ien, translated by Arthur Waley, three lines from which form the novel's epigraph. Written in the form of a journal with inserted letters, the story begins in early 1913, with the narrator, David Halliday (a Cambridge Classics graduate, aged 22, working on a fellowship thesis on Theocritus) holidaying happily alone in the Lake District. In Yorkshire,"
"Ivanovich Kuprin. Nobel Prize winner Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin wrote ""Dry Valley"" (1912), which is considered to be influenced by gothic literature. In her monograph on the subject, Muireann Maguire writes, ""The centrality of the Gothic-fantastic to Russian fiction is almost impossible to exaggerate, and certainly exceptional in the context of world literature."" Further contributions to the Gothic genre were seen in the work of the Romantic poets. Prominent examples include Samuel Taylor Coleridge's ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" and ""Christabel"" as well as John Keats' ""La Belle Dame sans Merci"" (1819) and ""Isabella, or the Pot of Basil"" (1820)"