"person that has the project of making a thing. Well, that's putting it pompously – but constructing. I do see it in sort of three-dimensional structures. And because that person does that all the time, that person is able to love all these people."" A. S. Byatt Dame Antonia Susan Duffy HonFBA (""née"" Drabble; born 24 August 1936), known professionally as A. S. Byatt ( ), is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner. In 2008, ""The Times"" newspaper named her on its list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Byatt was born in Sheffield as Antonia"
"in the ""New York Times"", wrote ""a plenitude of surprises awaits the reader of this gorgeously written novel. A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because ""Possession"" is a tour de force that opens every narrative device of English fiction to inspection without, for a moment, ceasing to delight."" Also ""The most dazzling aspect of ""Possession"" is Ms. Byatt's canny invention of letters, poems and diaries from the 19th century"". Critic Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, writing in the ""New York Times"", noted that what he describes as the ""wonderfully extravagant novel"" is ""pointedly subtitled 'A Romance'."""
"Possession (Byatt novel) Possession: A Romance is a 1990 best-selling novel by British writer A. S. Byatt that won the 1990 Booker Prize. The novel explores the postmodern concerns of similar novels, which are often categorised as historiographic metafiction, a genre that blends approaches from both historical fiction and metafiction. The novel follows two modern-day academics as they research the paper trail around the previously unknown love life between famous fictional poets Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte. ""Possession"" is set both in the present day and the Victorian era, contrasting the two time periods, as well as echoing similarities"
"Andrew J. Offutt Andrew Jefferson Offutt (August 16, 1934 – April 30, 2013) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He wrote as Andrew J. Offutt, A. J. Offutt, and Andy Offutt. His normal byline, andrew j. offutt, has all his name in lower-case letters. He also wrote erotica under seventeen different pseudonyms, principally John Cleve, John Denis, Jeff Morehead, and Turk Winter. He is the father of novelist Chris Offutt and professor Jeff Offutt. ""The Sword of Skelos"" (1979), one of Offutt's contributions to the Conan The Barbarian saga, included a short, facetious biographical note: ""Andrew J. Offutt"
"by present-day academics Roland Michell and Maud Bailey. Following a trail of clues from letters and journals, they collaborate to uncover the truth about Ash and LaMotte's relationship, before it is discovered by rival colleagues. Byatt provides extensive letters, poetry and diaries by major characters in addition to the narrative, including poetry attributed to the fictional Ash and LaMotte. A. S. Byatt, in part, wrote ""Possession"" in response to John Fowles' novel ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"" (1969). In an essay in Byatt's nonfiction book, ""On Histories and Stories"", she wrote: Obscure scholar Roland Michell, researching in the London Library, discovers"
"Robert B. Wyatt Robert B. Wyatt (born May 19, 1940, in Miami, Oklahoma) is an American book editor, as well as a fiction writer and publisher. He has had a long career devoted to the publication of fiction, including nearly 20 years at Avon, and nearly a decade at Ballantine. Though most of the imprints for which he worked were primarily paperback reprint concerns, under his own imprints Available Press (Ballantine) and A Wyatt Book (St. Martin's Press), he was able to issue original literature and to launch the careers of an eclectic list of contemporary authors. Wyatt's first job"
"State University. He was awarded the title of distinguished alumni from both schools. J. Everett Prewitt James Everett Prewitt (born November 12, 1942) is an American novelist and former Army officer who served in the Vietnam War. Prewitt's debut novel, ""Snake Walkers"", won the Bronze award in the General Fiction category of ""ForeWord Magazine's"" Book of the Year Award. In 2006, ""Snake Walkers"" was also honored by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It won First Place for Fiction at the Los Angeles Black Book Expo in March 2005 and 2nd place at the Independent Book Awards held"
"The first one is Inspector Ryvet. The other two are Chief Inspector Julian Rivers (who appears in 15 books), and his assistant, Inspector Lansing, who appears in 18 cases (four of them with Ryvet.) E. C. R. Lorac Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) (who wrote under the pseudonyms E. C. R. Lorac and Carol Carnac) was a British crime writer. The youngest daughter of Harry and Beatrice Rivett, née Foot, (1868-1943), she was born in Hendon, Middlesex, (now London) on May 6, 1894. She attended the South Hampstead High School, and the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. She"
"J. Everett Prewitt James Everett Prewitt (born November 12, 1942) is an American novelist and former Army officer who served in the Vietnam War. Prewitt's debut novel, ""Snake Walkers"", won the Bronze award in the General Fiction category of ""ForeWord Magazine's"" Book of the Year Award. In 2006, ""Snake Walkers"" was also honored by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. It won First Place for Fiction at the Los Angeles Black Book Expo in March 2005 and 2nd place at the Independent Book Awards held in New York City in 2005. Snake Walkers also won first place in"
"as Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Browning, in merging realism and naturalism with fantasy. Her story collections include ""Sugar and Other Stories"" (1987); ""The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye"" (1994), a collection of fairy tales; ""Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice"" (1998); and ""Little Black Book of Stories"" (2003). ""The Matisse Stories"" (1993) features three pieces, each describing a painting by Henri Matisse, each the tale of an initially smaller crisis that shows the long-present unravelling in the protagonists' lives. Her books reflect a continuous interest in zoology, entomology, geology, and Darwinism among other repeated themes. Byatt has"
"Alice Elinor Bartlett Alice Elinor Bartlett (sometimes, Alice Eloise Bartlett, née Bowen; pen name, Birch Arnold and Mrs. J. M. D. Bartlett; September 4, 1848 – 1920) was an American author. She published novels, wrote for newspapers, and penned lyrics, essays and miscellaneous writings. Alice Elinor Bowen was born in Delavan, Wisconsin, September 4, 1848, the daughter of Joseph Bowne and Sophronia E. (Braley) Bowen. She was educated at the University of Wisconsin. On September 28, 1876 in Leavenworth, Kansas, she married J. M. D. Bartlett, books and news dealer of Quincy, Illinois. They had two children, Donald Bowen, and"
"a dozen languages. Bennett died on June 27, 2009, at the age of 96 at his home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Novels for Adults Catacombs (Abelard-Schuman, 1959); Murder Money (Crest, 1963); Death is a Silent Room (Abelard-Schuman, 1965) Novels for Young Adults Deathman, Do Not Follow Me (Meredith Press, 1968); The Deadly Gift (Meredith Press, 1969); Masks: A Love Story (Franklin Watts, 1972); The Killing Tree (Franklin Watts, 1972); Shadows Offstage (Nelson, 1974); The Long Black Coat (Delacorte Press, 1973); The Dangling Witness (Delacorte Press, 1974); Say Hello to the Hit Man (Delacorte Press, 1976); The Birthday Murderer (Delacorte"
"son Chris wrote that he ""came to understand that my father had passed as a science-fiction writer while actually pursuing a 50-year career as a pornographer."" Andrew J. Offutt Andrew Jefferson Offutt (August 16, 1934 – April 30, 2013) was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He wrote as Andrew J. Offutt, A. J. Offutt, and Andy Offutt. His normal byline, andrew j. offutt, has all his name in lower-case letters. He also wrote erotica under seventeen different pseudonyms, principally John Cleve, John Denis, Jeff Morehead, and Turk Winter. He is the father of novelist Chris Offutt and professor"
"sometimes choose to use initials, such as K. A. Applegate, C. J. Cherryh, P. N. Elrod, D. C. Fontana, S. E. Hinton, G. A. Riplinger, J. D. Robb, and J. K. Rowling. Alternatively, they may use a unisex pen name, such as Robin Hobb (the second pen name of novelist Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden). A collective name, also known as a house name, is sometimes used with series fiction published under one pen name even though more than one author may have contributed to the series. In some cases the first books in the series were written by one writer,"
"was later reprised in France as ""Yataca"". Edward George Cowan has written under variations of his real name as well as pseudonyms, including (but not limited to): There are other unrelated authors who have written under the name of George Forrest. The content will tend to indicate which scripts were written by Ted Cowan, who wrote almost exclusively for the boys / girls / comic market. Script accreditations include (but are not limited to): Short Stories in Hard Cover Compilations: (No ISBN); First Published 1965, Golden Pleasure Books Ltd., London 1st edition (1968), The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd. Ted Cowan"
"seat in the Swain Reserve have been named in her memory. There is also an Annie Wyatt Room in the National Trust offices at The Rocks in Sydney. Wyatt, A. Forsyth, (1941) ""Doors that slam: a romance of early Sydney"", Sydney: G.M. Dash. (A copy is held in the State Library of New South Wales.) ""This Wikipedia article is substantially built upon the essay ""Wyatt, Annie"" in the Dictionary of Sydney <br>written by Julie Blythe, 2008 and licensed under CC by-sa-2.5-au. Imported on 31 July 2012."" Annie Forsyth Wyatt Annie Forsyth Wyatt (3 January 1885 – 27 May 1961) OBE"
"culture adds a feeling of authenticity to a rather routine plot."" Everett F. Bleiler, however, declared it to be ""an old-fashioned work,"" saying it was ""not as smoothly written as is usual with the author"" and finding ""the perils are synthetic"" while ""the hero's adventures in Mictolan are on the yawn-provoking side."" ""New York Times"" reviewer Basil Davenport panned the novel severely, saying ""This is obviously literature of escape, but any occupation from which one would escape to this must be painful indeed."" The Bridge of Light The Bridge of Light is a science fiction novel by author A. Hyatt"
"Susan Minot Susan Minot rhymes with 'sign it' (born December 7, 1956) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, screenwriter and painter. Minot was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. Her father George Richards Minot was born in 1927 and worked as a banker and stock broker in Boston. Her mother born Helen Ruth Hannon in 1929, known as Carrie Minot, was a mother and homemaker, was killed January 16, 1978 when the car she was driving was hit at a train crossing, the signals being down after an ice storm. She has three"
"am interested in them."" In those books and other works, Byatt alludes to, and builds upon, themes from Romantic and Victorian literature. She conceives of fantasy as an alternative to, rather than an escape from, everyday life, and it is often difficult to tell when the fantastic in her work actually represents the eruption of psychosis. ""In my work"", she notes ""writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers."" ""Possession"" (1990) parallels the emerging relationship of two contemporary academics with the lives of two (fictional) nineteenth century poets whom they are researching. It won"
"being. This is not the first time Beckett has used light to symbolise existence: “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.” The protagonist is nameless, he is Everyman. “As Beckett told Barney Rosset, his longtime U.S. publisher, in 1957: he is just ‘human meat or bones.’” When he first looks at his hands it is “”as though [he is] noticing his own body for the first time … Having become cognisant of his ""Dasein"" … [he is willing to] accept the presence of various ""Seiendes""”, as Heidegger calls existing objects,"
"of the Nation"". Her work is often optioned for film and television, and her essays, stories, and poems are highly anthologized. She lives in Florida with her husband writer David G.W. Scott and their four children. Julianna Baggott Julianna Baggott (born 30 September 1969) is a novelist, essayist, and poet who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. She is an associate professor at Florida State University's College of Motion Picture Arts. Baggott has published over twenty books under her own name and pen names. Her recent novels, Pure and Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders,"
"the close of ""Possession: A Romance"", a novel by A. S. Byatt, the two lovers Randolph Henry Ash and Christabel LaMotte finally unite in the midst of a great storm. They wake the next day to find that the whole world had a strange new smell. It is described as 'a green smell, a smell of shredded leaves and oozing resin, of crushed wood and splashed sap, a tart smell, which bore some relation to the smell of bitten apples.' It was the described as the smell of death and destruction, however, it was said to smell fresh, lively and"
"is credited, thanked or acknowledged in a number of books and publications including: Yvvette Edwards' ""The Mother"", Andrew O'Neill's ""History of Heavy Metal,""John Higgs ""Watling Street"", Deborah Delano's ""Saddest Sound,"" and A. William James ""Book Thirteen"", which is in-part dedicated to Fruish. He rides a rowbike. Fruish is a member of the Northampton Arts Lab. Alistair Fruish Alistair Fruish is an English filmmaker, writer and novelist, born in Northampton. Fruish is known for his novel ""Kiss My ASBO""""."" Along with a number of other short stories by the writer, the initial section of ""Kiss My ASBO"", ""Double Bubble"", was first"
"Byrd Baylor Byrd Baylor Schweitzer (born March 28, 1924) is an American novelist, essayist, and author of picture books for children. Four of her books have achieved Caldecott Honor status. Byrd Baylor was born in March 1924 in San Antonio, Texas. She is related to Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, the namesake of Baylor University, and to Admiral Richard E. Byrd. Her first name, Byrd, is taken from her mother's maiden name. Baylor attended the University of Arizona. Baylor's work presents images of the Southwest and an intense connection between the land and the Native American people. Her prose illustrates vividly"
"set me on this path”. The elder Grafton was a municipal bond attorney in Kentucky who pursued a secondary career as a crime novelist, winning minor acclaim for four novels. Chip Grafton died on January 1, 1982 at the age of 72, four months before ""’A’ is for Alibi"" was published. ""Kirkus Reviews"" said this was a ""shakily plotted but otherwise terrific start for a new detective series"", writing when the book was released. They look forward to the rest of the Alphabet Series, ""fine dialogue, a great eye for people and places"", if the author can tighten up her"
"Wyatt's Hurricane Wyatt's Hurricane is a third person narrative thriller novel by English author Desmond Bagley, first published in 1966. David Wyatt is a white West Indian, originally from St Kitts by way of Grenada, and is a meteorologist working with the United States Navy's “Hurricane hunter” flights researching storms and severe weather patterns. He is based out of San Fernandez, a fictional Caribbean island nation with a history and political background strikingly similar to Haiti. Wyatt is convinced that Hurricane Mabel will strike San Fernandez head-on, with a storm surge that will flood its capital of St Pierre, potentially"
"she will die before sunset. The novel contains a large number of quotations from other authors. They are related to the story itself and are functionally inserted through Mandarax, a fictional voice translator that is also able to provide quotations from literature and history. The following authors are quoted (in order of their appearance in the book): Anne Frank, Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, John Masefield, William Cullen Bryant, Ambrose Bierce, Lord Byron, Noble Claggett, John Greenleaf Whittier, Benjamin Franklin, John Heywood, Cesare Bonesana Beccaria, Bertolt Brecht, Saint John, Charles Dickens, Isaac Watts, William Shakespeare, Plato, Robert Browning, Jean de La"
"describes a week in the life of a poet and his creation of a poem which, by the last couple of pages, proves remarkably prophetic. In ""The Comforters"", Muriel Spark's protagonist hears the sound of a typewriter and voices that later may transform into the novel itself. Jan Křesadlo purports to be merely the translator of a ""chrononaut's"" handed down homeric Greek science fiction epic, the Astronautilia. Other postmodern examples of poioumena include Samuel Beckett's trilogy (""Molloy"", ""Malone Dies"" and ""The Unnamable""); Doris Lessing's ""The Golden Notebook""; John Fowles's ""Mantissa""; William Golding's ""Paper Men""; Gilbert Sorrentino's ""Mulligan Stew""; and S.D."
"Julianna Baggott Julianna Baggott (born 30 September 1969) is a novelist, essayist, and poet who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. She is an associate professor at Florida State University's College of Motion Picture Arts. Baggott has published over twenty books under her own name and pen names. Her recent novels, Pure and Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders, were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. To date, there are over one hundred foreign editions of her novels. Baggott began publishing when she was twenty-two. After receiving her M.F.A. from the University of"
"A. E. Housman - Lionel Johnson - Rudyard Kipling - Andrew Lang - Eugene Lee-Hamilton - Alfred Lyall - Charlotte Mew - Alice Meynell - A. C. Miall - Sir Henry Newbolt - Roden Noel - Arthur O'Shaughnessy - William James Renton - T. W. Rolleston - George William Russell - William Sharp - J. K. Stephen - Algernon Charles Swinburne - John Addington Symonds - Arthur Symons - Lord De Tabley - James Thomson (B.V.) - Francis Thompson - Margaret Veley - Sir William Watson - Augusta Webster - Oscar Wilde - W. B. Yeats Also, prose by: Sir"
"Series First Collectors' Series Second Collectors' Series Double Editions International Edition Series Carter Brown Carter Brown was the literary pseudonym of Alan Geoffrey Yates (1 August 19235 May 1985), an English-born Australian writer of detective fiction. Born in England, Alan Yates married and settled in Australia in 1948. He began his working life as a film technician, a salesman and in public relations for Qantas before taking up writing full-time. Yates soon became a literary phenomenon. He wrote westerns under the pseudonym Todd Conway, and science fiction under Paul Valdez. He even found the time to write books under various"
"Stephen Robinett Stephen Allen Robinett (13 July 1941 – 16 February 2004) was an American writer of science fiction and mystery novels and short stories. Robinett's first publication appeared in the March 1969 edition of the magazine ""Analog Science Fiction and Fact"": the novelette ""Minitalent"", which was published with his most-used pseudonym, Tak Hallus (which he claimed was Persian for ""pseudonym""). By the mid-1970s, however, he had begun using his own name. He published two novels, ""Stargate"" and ""The Man Responsible"" during the mid-1970s, and continued to publish novels and short fiction until the early 1990s. He also wrote extensively"
"Parts, and their Fore Parts, and in whatsoever Parts did suffer them most, lament Cruelly"". ""[A] Pioneer and a Menace"" in her youth, Dame Musset has reached ""a witty and learned Fifty""; she rescues women in distress, dispenses wisdom, and upon her death is elevated to sainthood. Also appearing pseudonymously are Élisabeth de Gramont, Romaine Brooks, Dolly Wilde, Radclyffe Hall and her partner Una, Lady Troubridge, Janet Flanner and Solita Solano, and Mina Loy. The obscure language, inside jokes, and ambiguity of ""Ladies Almanack"" have kept critics arguing about whether it is an affectionate satire or a bitter attack, but"