Who wrote the book 'A Town Like Alice'?
"the march. However, the Nevil Shute Foundation states that this was a misunderstanding, and that the women were merely transported from prison camp to prison camp by the Japanese. ""Shute, fortunately misinformed about parts of her experience, mistakenly understands that the women were made to walk. This was possibly the luckiest misunderstanding of his life..."" says the Foundation. Shute based the character of Harman on Herbert James ""Ringer"" Edwards, whom Shute met in 1948 at a station (ranch) in Queensland. Edwards, an Australian veteran of the Malayan campaign, had been crucified for 63 hours by Japanese soldiers on the Burma"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"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"""
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"","
"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,"
"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"
"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"
"Automated Alice Automated Alice is a fantasy novel by British author Jeff Noon, first published in 1996. The book follows Alice's travels to a future Manchester city populated by ""Newmonians"", ""Civil Serpents"" and a vanishing cat. The book was written as both the third book in the Vurt series and the ""trequel"" to the famous Lewis Carroll books, ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and ""Through the Looking-Glass"". The story of ""Automated Alice"" tells of the character of Alice from Lewis Carroll's books in a future version of Manchester, England. After following her Great Aunt Ermintrude's parrot Whippoorwill through a grandfather clock,"
"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,"
"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"
"Clarke, it is likely Marcus partly inspired the characters of Jean Paget and Joe Harman in his famous book ""A Town Like Alice"". Paget’s role sees her being captured in Malaya when the Japanese invaded and she wishes to return and help the people who helped save her life. It was on this trip that Shute met Jimmie Edwards (Ringer Edwards), whose wartime experiences of capture, torture, and crucifixion (which he survived) by the Japanese are usually credited to have inspired the character of Joe Harman. Harman meets and marries Paget in the book. During the trip with Shute around"
"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,"
"Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet. In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years, ""The Autobiography of Alice"
"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"
"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"
"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,"
"1989. Akins is the author of five books; the novels ""Home Movie"", published in 1988 by Simon & Schuster, ""Little Woman"", published in 1990 by Harper & Row, ""Public Life"", published in 1993 by HarperCollins, and ""Hometown Brew"", published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998, and the short story collection ""World Like a Knife"", published in 1991 by The Johns Hopkins University Press. As well as writing, Akins has also taught at Western Michigan University, Northland College, and Fairleigh Dickinson University. Ellen Akins Ellen Akins is an American novelist from South Bend, Indiana. She graduated from LaSalle High School in"
"Alice series The ""Alice"" series is a young adult book series written by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, consisting of 25 books and three prequels. The ""Alice"" series follows the main character, Alice McKinley, known as ""Al"" to her father and older brother, as she grows up in Silver Spring, Maryland. Her mother died of leukemia when Alice was five. Alice has a hard time at first growing up in an all-male household, but her father and her brother, Lester, prove to be honest and open about almost everything Alice talks about. Alice has very little memory of her mother, often confusing"
"2013. Memento Films and Killer Films produced a film adaptation of ""Still Alice,"" starring Julianne Moore in her Academy Award-winning role as Alice Howland, and co-starring Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, and Kate Bosworth. 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"
"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"
"books for several decades due to its use of profanity and explicit references to sex and rape, as well as drugs. The book was adapted into the 1973 television film ""Go Ask Alice"", starring Jamie Smith-Jackson and William Shatner. In 1976, a stage play of the same name, written by Frank Shiras and based on the book, was also published. The title was taken from a line in the 1967 Grace Slick-penned Jefferson Airplane song ""White Rabbit"" (""go ask Alice/when she's ten feet tall""); the lyrics in turn reference scenes in Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel ""Alice's Adventures In Wonderland"", in"
"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,"
"after the original Alice illustrations by John Tenniel. In 1902, Bangs had written a book inspired by ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"", called ""Rollo in Emblemland"". Part of ""Alice in Blunderland"" was previously published as ""Alice in Municipaland"" in ""Concerning Municipal Ownership"", vol. 1 no. 10 (December 1906), pp. 182–87 (perhaps the first chapter of the book). Alice travels to Blunderland where nothing is supposed to be, children live in the Municipal House of the Children and the Duchess and the City are their parents. We find in this novel all the familiar characters made famous by ""Alice in Wonderland"": the"