"a significant point in American history. Various authors have also used ""Titanic"" as the setting for murder mysteries, as in the case of Max Allan Collins' 1999 novel ""The Titanic Murders"", part of his ""disaster series"" of murder mysteries set amidst famous disasters. The writer Jacques Futrelle, who perished in the disaster, takes the role of amateur detective in solving a murder aboard ""Titanic"" shortly before her fatal collision. In 1996 Beryl Bainbridge published ""Every Man for Himself"", which won the Whitbread Award for Best Novel that year as well as being nominated for the Booker Prize and the ""Los"
"(1989). Beryl Bainbridge deals with the sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"" in ""Every Man for Himself"", which won the 1996 Whitbread Prize, and was a nominee of the Booker Prize. It also won the 1997 . Sometimes, as with Katherine Anne Porter's ""Ship of Fools"" (1962), a ship can be a symbol: ""if thought of as isolated in the midst of the ocean, a ship can stand for mankind and human society moving through time and struggling with its destiny."" Set in 1931 ""Ship of Fools"" is an allegory that traces the rise of Nazism and looks metaphorically at the"
"also commercially successful. Among her historical fiction novels are ""Every Man for Himself"", about the 1912 Titanic disaster, for which Bainbridge won the 1996 Whitbread Awards prize for best novel, and ""Master Georgie"", set during the Crimean War, for which she won the 1998 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Her final novel, ""According to Queeney"", is a fictionalized account of the last years of the life of Samuel Johnson as seen through the eyes of Queeney Thrale, eldest daughter of Henry and Hester Thrale. ""The Observer"" referred to it as a ""...highly intelligent, sophisticated and entertaining novel"". From"
"romantically connected to an army grunt named Michael Jennings. Rebecca's future is hinted at in both ""All Emergencies, Ring Super"" and the Santa Paws series when a ""Dr. Jennings"" is mentioned. In addition, most of White's main characters are animal lovers, as is White. ""Titanic"": The Diary of Margaret Anne Brady Shannon Hale Rachel Renée Russell Chris Colfer Ellen Emerson White Ellen Emerson White is an American author who has written a number of young adult fiction novels. Ms. White's first book, ""Friends for Life"" (1983) was published while she was a senior at Tufts University. Ms. White grew up"
"the ""Titanic"" in 1912. After a few unsuccessful relationships, James marries Hazel Forrest, but their happiness is short-lived due to their disparate backgrounds; she dies in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. James serves in the Great War, but is seriously wounded at Passchendaele on the Western Front in 1917, and subsequently never finds a purpose in life or a true love. He commits suicide in 1929, after losing his fortune in the Wall Street Crash. James Rupert Bellamy is born in one of the summer months of 1881 or 1882 (Lady Prudence, an old family friend, reminds his father"
"The Full Story of the RMS Titanic"". Robin Gardiner's 1995 and 1998 books ""Riddle of the Titanic"" and ""Titanic: The Ship that Never Sank"", put forward a conspiracy theory that the wreck is actually that of the RMS ""Olympic"", which supposedly the White Star Line had secretly switched with ""Titanic"" as part of an insurance scam. A variety of novels set aboard the ""Titanic"" has been produced over the years. One of the earliest was the German author Robert Prechtl's ""Titanic"", first published in Germany in 1937 and subsequently in Britain in 1938 and in the US in 1940 (translated"
"Hans Fallada novel ""Every Man Dies Alone"". Though written in 1947, it was virtually unknown to the English-speaking world until it was translated into English in 2009. The German edition achieved early success, spawning translations into Russian, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Norwegian, French, and Italian. The 2009 English version soon became a bestseller in both England and the United States, bringing more international success and translations into Hebrew and Dutch. In addition to the 1962 teleplay, there have been three subsequent screen adaptations of Fallada's novel: a television miniseries entitled ""Jeder stirbt für sich allein"" broadcast in East Germany in 1970;"
"and written by Julian Fellowes to mark the 100th anniversary of the maritime disaster on 15 April 1912. It sets out to paint a portrait of a whole society, telling the stories of a wide range of characters, both real and imagined, from every social level. Their narratives are developed and gradually interwoven over the first three episodes, each of which ends in a cliffhanger as the ship begins to founder. The fourth and final episode draws all of the different stories together and reveals to the audience who survives. ""Titanic"" has over 89 main characters. They are listed in"
"for television, ""Jeder stirbt für sich allein"", an adaptation of Hans Fallada's novel, ""Every Man Dies Alone"", based on the story of Otto and Elise Hampel, a working class couple who became involved in the anti-Nazi Resistance, failed in their efforts and were executed. About Harnack's work, German author Gerhard Schoenberner remarked, “At a time when West German postwar film had sunk to its artistic and political low, his work set new standards for the dictates of commerce and the false glorification of the past that had become fashionable during the Adenauer period as a result of the Cold War.”"
"Titanic 2020 Titanic 2020 is the first novel of the ""Titanic 2020"" series by Northern Irish author, Colin Bateman, published on 19 July 2007 through Hodder Children's Books. The novel in based in the year 2020 and follows a stowaway named Jimmy Armstrong and his journey on the brand new and purportedly ""unsinkable"" cruise ship ""Titanic"". Jimmys great-grandfather was on the original ""RMS Titanic"" and drowned when it sank. During a school trip Jimmy misses his chance to see the newly built ""Titanic"" and so decides to return later that night to take a look by himself. The ship leaves"
"Everyman (novel) Everyman is a novel by Philip Roth, published by Houghton Mifflin in May 2006. It won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 2007. It is Roth's third novel to receive the prize. The book begins at the funeral of its protagonist. The remainder of the book, which ends with his death, looks mournfully back on episodes from his life, including his childhood, where he and his older brother, Howie, worked in his father's shop, Everyman's Jewelry Store. He has been married three times, with two sons from his first marriage who resent him for leaving their mother, and"
"money or drinks by telling fraudulent tales of supposed suffering at sea). Besides the two volumes of autobiography, he wrote five volumes of entertaining (if unreliable) memoirs of his sailing adventures: ""Ice!"" (1978), ""Saga of a Wayward Sailor"" (1979), ""Dutch Treat"" (1979), ""Adrift"" (1980), and ""Aka"" (1981). ""Tristan"" Jones became a noted personality in the sailing community. In 1982, he published ""One Hand for Yourself, One for the Ship: The Essentials of Single Handed Sailing"". His left leg was amputated in 1982, due to health problems and accidents. Despite this, he resumed sailing, to inspire other people with disabilities. He"
"Walter Lord's book ""A Night to Remember"" in 1955. The discovery of the wreck of the ""Titanic"" by Robert Ballard in 1985 sparked a new wave of interest which has continued to the present day, boosted by the release of James Cameron's film of the same name in 1997. The fourth and final came with the capsizing of the ""Costa Concordia"" in 2012, just few months before the centenary of the ""Titanic"" disaster. Even at the time, the high level of public interest in the disaster produced strong dissenting reactions in some quarters. The novelist Joseph Conrad (who was himself"
"A for Anything A for Anything is a science fiction novel by American writer Damon Knight. The author postulates the discovery, in the near future, of the ""Gismo"", a device that can duplicate anything—even another Gismo. Since all material objects have become essentially free, the only commodity of value is human labor, and the author suggests that a slave economy would be the inevitable result. The novel first appeared in 1959 as ""The People Maker"" (Zenith Books), based on a story in the November 1957 issue of ""Fantasy and Science Fiction"". Knight subsequently revised the text, which was published by"
"and the real-life sinking of the RMS ""Titanic"". In 1912, the German ""Berliner Tageblatt"" newspaper published a book in serial form that ran from January 9 until April 24. This work of fiction was written by Gerhard Hauptmann, who would receive the Nobel Prize in Literature later that year. One month before the fateful April maiden voyage of the RMS ""Titanic"", the story was published by S. Fischer Verlag as the novel ""Atlantis"". ""Atlantis"" is a romantic tale set aboard the fictitious ocean liner ""Roland"", which is coincidentally doomed to a fate very similar to that of the RMS ""Titanic""."
"Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic: A Novel Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic: A Novel is a 1997 novel requested by Adams to be written by Monty Python member Terry Jones as an unofficial tie-in to the video game by the same name. At the center of the galaxy, an unknown civilization is preparing for an event of epic proportions, the launch of the most technologically advanced spaceship ever built - the ""Starship Titanic"". The ship that cannot possibly go wrong. Based on an idea of a cruise ship starship disaster mentioned by Adams in the novel, ""Life, the Universe and Everything"". Published"
"of the passengers. The story, by Mayn Clew Garnett (the pseudonym of sea-story author T. Jenkins Hains), created a minor sensation. In 1898, fourteen years prior to the ""Titanic"" disaster, Morgan Robertson wrote a book called ""Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan"". This story features an enormous British passenger liner called the ""Titan"", which, deemed to be unsinkable, carries insufficient lifeboats. On a voyage in the month of April, the ""Titan"" hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of almost everyone on board. There are some similarities between the fictional sinking of the ""Titan"""
"and paperback best-seller. It received many positive reviews, inspiring ""People"" magazine to do a story on his troubles under the heading ""Trouble."" Mason was released from prison on May 17, 1985. He has subsequently published two novels, ""Weapon"" and ""Solo"", as well as a second memoir, ""Chickenhawk: Back in the World"". In 1996, Columbia/Tristar released a film (""Solo"") based on Mason's first novel, but which used the title of the second. Robert Mason (writer) Robert C. Mason (born March 20, 1942) is a Vietnam War veteran and author of several books, including his first, best-selling memoir: ""Chickenhawk"" (1983). Mason piloted"
"to blunt it. After much soul-searching, Daniel realizes that he cannot both have Alan like a son and his wife Margaret at the same time. This contradiction is violently resolved in the book's conclusion where Archie kills Mollie. Each Man's Son Each Man's Son is the fourth novel by Canadian writer Hugh MacLennan. First published in 1951 by Macmillan of Canada, it takes place in a coal mining town on Cape Breton, Nova Scotia just before the First World War. Mollie MacNeil and her son Alan, miss Archie (Mollie's husband) who is away in the United States trying to make"
"Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1962 film) Jeder stirbt für sich allein (""Everyone Dies Alone"") is a 1962 West German made for television political drama film based on a best-selling novel by Hans Fallada, itself based on the true story of a working class couple, Otto and Elise Hampel, who committed acts of civil disobedience against the government of Nazi Germany and were executed. Directed by former German Resistance member Falk Harnack—whose brother, sister-in-law and cousins were executed during the Nazi regime—it was the first screen adaptation of Fallada's novel. The teleplay was adapted by Robert A. Stemmle from the"
"submarine, the ""U-530"", and brought across the ocean to Argentina."" Corsi has been married twice. His first marriage to Joy Dugan on May 8, 1970, ended in divorce. He married his second wife Monica in 1991. He currently lives in Denville Township, New Jersey. Jerome Corsi Jerome Robert Corsi (born August 31, 1946) is an American author, political commentator, and conspiracy theorist. His two ""New York Times"" best-selling books, ""Unfit for Command"" (2004) and ""The Obama Nation"" (2008), attacked Democratic presidential candidates and have been criticized for including numerous inaccuracies. In other books and columns for conservative sites such as"
"UK for UK distribution of both his ""Wool"" and ""Sand"" series, published as novels of the same names. In mid-2015, Howey gave up his home in Florida, and moved to St Francis Bay, Eastern Cape, South Africa. He commissioned the construction of a sailing catamaran, on which he plans to live and sail the world while he continues to write. These are part of The Apocalypse Triptych collection of short stories. Hugh Howey Hugh C. Howey (born 1975) is an American writer, known best for the science fiction series ""Silo"", part of which he published independently through Amazon.com's Kindle Direct"
"Man"", ""The Prince of Frogtown"", ""I Am a Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story"", the authorized biography of American POW Jessica Lynch, ""The Most They Ever Had,"" ""Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story,"" a biography of the rock and roll legend, and ""My Southern Journey"". Bragg's book ""All Over But the Shoutin"" tells the story of his childhood in Alabama, his rise to becoming a journalist, his personal struggles and the stories of the people he cares about. The book pays special attention to his struggles with his abusive alcoholic father, and the story of his mother who raised Bragg"
"into English). The main protagonist and hero of the novel is John Jacob Astor; the book focuses on the theme of redemption, though it takes a markedly anti-British stance. It is considered the first serious ""Titanic"" novel. One of the most famous novels associated with the disaster is a book written by Morgan Robertson fourteen years prior to the ""Titanic""s maiden voyage, ""Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan"". Published in 1898, the book is noted for its similarities with the actual sinking. It tells the story of a huge ocean liner, the ""Titan"", which sinks in the North Atlantic"
"by Pan Books, 1997 Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic: A Novel Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic: A Novel is a 1997 novel requested by Adams to be written by Monty Python member Terry Jones as an unofficial tie-in to the video game by the same name. At the center of the galaxy, an unknown civilization is preparing for an event of epic proportions, the launch of the most technologically advanced spaceship ever built - the ""Starship Titanic"". The ship that cannot possibly go wrong. Based on an idea of a cruise ship starship disaster mentioned by Adams in the novel, ""Life, the"
"Filson Young Alexander Bell Filson Young (1876–1938) was a journalist, who published the first book about the sinking of the ""RMS Titanic"", called ""Titanic"", published in 1912 only 37 days after the sinking. He was also an essayist, war correspondent in the Boer War and World War I, a programmes advisor to the BBC, and the author of two novels. Beside his literary work, he was an organist and composer, and a pioneer of motoring and aviation. Alexander Bell Filson Young was born in Ireland in 1876, at Ballyeaston, County Antrim. He was the son of the Revd. William Young"
"time travel. The author, Samantha Hunt, received a National Book Foundation award for authors under 35, for her previous novel, ""The Seas"". ""The Invention of Everything Else"" was shortlisted for an award from ""Believer"" magazine and shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She won the Bard Fiction Prize for 2010. The Invention of Everything Else The Invention of Everything Else is a novel written by American author Samantha Hunt, published in 2008. The novel presents a fictionalized account of the last days in the life of Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American electrical engineer. Other fictionalized versions of historical characters include Thomas Edison"
"Solo (Mason novel) Solo is a 1993 science fiction novel by Robert Mason. The book was Mason's second novel; he had previously written ""Weapon"" and a memoir about his experiences in Vietnam titled ""Chickenhawk"". When the self-aware Pentagon-built robot, Solo, goes AWOL, the Pentagon uses its reserve robot, Nimrod, as bait luring Solo into a trap meant to destroy him, and setting the stage for a cyborg confrontation. Solo, a robot designed by the US Government as a hyper intelligent super assassin, goes AWOL on his mission in Nicaragua, and finds himself at the bottom of a lake. Reaching the"
"Every Man Dies Alone Every Man Dies Alone or Alone in Berlin () is a 1947 novel by German author Hans Fallada. It is based on the true story of a working class husband and wife who, acting alone, became part of the German Resistance. They were eventually discovered, denounced, arrested, tried and executed. Fallada's book was one of the first anti-Nazi novels to be published by a German after World War II. Otto and Elise Hampel, a working class couple in Berlin, were not interested in politics, but after Elise Hampel learned that her son had fallen in France,"
"Angeles Times"" Book Prize. The title comes from some of the reputed last words of ""Titanic""s Captain Smith and features a fictional nephew of J. P. Morgan, the ultimate owner of the ship, who seeks to befriend and seduce the rich and famous aboard the ship. He accompanies Thomas Andrews as the ship sinks and makes his escape aboard a capsized lifeboat (like Sherlock Holmes). The book incorporates a number of myths and conspiracy theories about ""Titanic"", notably Robin Gardiner's claim that she was switched for her sister ship ""Olympic"". ""Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic"" (1997), written by ex-Python Terry Jones"
"Titanic. Morgan Robertson Morgan Andrew Robertson (September 30, 1861 – March 24, 1915) was an American author of short stories and novels, and the self-proclaimed inventor of the periscope. Robertson was the son of Andrew Robertson, a ship captain on the Great Lakes, and Amelia (née Glassford) Robertson. Morgan went to sea as a cabin boy and was in the merchant service from 1866 to 1877, during which he rose to first mate. Tired of life at sea, he studied jewelry making at Cooper Union in New York City and worked for 10 years as a diamond setter. When that"
"port at this point, making Jimmy an unwitting stow-away on the ship's maiden voyage from Belfast to Miami. Discovered by a crew member, Jimmy is brought before the Captain and, given their distance from shore, is ordered to work his passage on the ship's newspaper, the ""Titanic Times"". At the same time, an incurable disease is quickly spreading around the world resulting in widespread rioting and panic. The novel was originally based around a cruise ship named ""The Emperor of the Seas"", after a ship that Bateman himself had been on. In 2011, ""Titanic 2020"" was selected as one of"
"theory. He married Lynn in Oxford on 20 January 1979 and the couple had one son, Will. He lost the battle against stomach cancer on 23 July 2017, at the age of 70. One of the most controversial and complex theories was put forward by Robin Gardiner in his book, ""Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank?"". In it, Gardiner draws on several events and coincidences that occurred in the months, days, and hours leading up to the sinking of the ""Titanic"", and concludes that the ship that sank was in fact ""Titanic""s sister ship , disguised as ""Titanic"", as an"